Milk-Analysis : a practical treatise on the examination of milk and its derivatives, cream, butter, and cheese / by J. Alfred Wanklyn.

Date:
1874
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Credit: Milk-Analysis : a practical treatise on the examination of milk and its derivatives, cream, butter, and cheese / by J. Alfred Wanklyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    PREFACE. During the year 1871 I devoted much attention to the subject of milk-analysis, and besides making many hundreds of analyses of milk purchased in different parts of London for the Milk Journal, was employed by Government in an investigation into the milk supplied to the Metropolitan Workhouses. I have likewise examined the milk supplied to the Hospitals in London. In the course of this work, I have been fortunate enough to make some improvements in the art of milk-analysis, and, in particular, some little modifications in the taking of milk- residues, so as to transfer such determinations (which before were tedious and uncertain) into