A dissertation on milk : In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases .. / By Samuel Ferris.

  • Ferris, Samuel, 1760-1831.
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[1785]
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    rus in fome, and floor albus in ethers, are faid to have been.its covfequences.* When fuch dreadful effects-.as thefe arife from unavoidable accident, tae woman becomes, from the torment (he fitters, an object of the tenderer!: compafiioi*: but when brought on by her own folly, even humanity herfelf is deaf to her cries, --nd withholds the tear of pity. The firft instance, which I ever law o) the bad effects arifijQg from repelling the milk, from brealls ripe for the tender office^ of nature, was in a friend of my own: and from this infbnce I was lb con- vinced of the impropriety of dcing it, that. I have anxioufly reprobated, from that time, fo unnatural a curtom. She was a young woman of an ele- gant form, and of a delicate cenftitution ; con- * * Haller: Elcm. Phyf. torh. vii. lib. xxviii. p. 41. Gregory's Comp. View. p. 34. Zimmerman on Experience, vol. ii. p. 263. Bocrhaav: Prax. Med. torn. ii. p. 216. Lieutaud. Synop. Univ. Prax. Med. torn. i. lib. iii. P- 530« 531- ^