Koumiss, or fermented mare's milk, and its uses in the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption and other wasting diseases : with an appendix on the best methods of fermenting cow's milk.

  • Carrick, George L.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Koumiss, or fermented mare's milk, and its uses in the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption and other wasting diseases : with an appendix on the best methods of fermenting cow's milk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    KOUMISS; OE, FEEHENTED MAEE’S MILK. ♦ CHAPTER I. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF KOUMISS. The steppes of European Russia, and of Central and South-Western Asia, are vast tracts of slightly un- dulating, treeless, virgin land. The soil ranges in quality from the rich, black, oily, vegetable earth, covering almost boundless plains, to the infertile, sandy, desolate waste. The climate is a purely Continental one, — i.e., besides the seasons being well marked, the sky is generally clear and the air dry. The population is sparse, and consists for the most part of wandering tribes of Kliirgiz, Bashkirs, Kalmucks, Tartars, or Nogayans—the latter being an offshoot from the Tartar race. They live in tents A