Milk, its production and uses : with chapters on dairy farming, the diseases of cattle, and on the hygiene and control of supplies / by Edward F. Willoughby.

Date:
1903
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Credit: Milk, its production and uses : with chapters on dairy farming, the diseases of cattle, and on the hygiene and control of supplies / by Edward F. Willoughby. 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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    CONTENTS CHAP. I. Breeds of cattle. Choice of a cow. Breeding. Cha- racters OF A GOOD DAIRY COW. REARING OF CALVES II. Housing of cows, arrangements, and construction of COWSHEDS, &C., COVERED YARDS III. Food of the cow. Uses and composition of the prin- cipal ARTICLES OF FOOD. DIGESTIBILITY AND UTILISA- TION OF THE SAME. SOILING OR STALL FEEDING IY. Diseases of the cow. Posological table Y. Legal aspects of diseases of cattle. Diseases of ANIMALS ACT. DAIRIES, COW-SHEDS, AND MILK SHOPS order. Contagious diseases (animals) act VI. Elimination of tuberculosis VII. Inspection and control of cow-sheds and dairies VIII. Physiology of milk. Chemical composition and cha- racters OF THE MILK OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. SOME AB- NORMAL AND DISEASED MILKS IX. Dietetics of milk and milk preparations. Digesti- bility. Action of bread and farinacea on milk. Skimmed and separated milk. Boiling, pasteur- ising, AND STERILISING. CONDENSED MILK. HUMAN AND HUMANISED MILKS IN INFANT FEEDING. CREAM. Junkets. “ Milk foods ” X. Therapeutics of milk. Dietetic use of milk in DISEASE. PEPTONISED MILK. “MlLK CURES. ” KOUMISS. Historical notice. Koumiss cure on the steppes. Koumiss from mares’ and from cows’ milk. Kephir . XI. Relation between milk and disease. Identity of human and bovine tuberculosis and its transmissi- BILITY BY MEANS OF MILK. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Enteric fever, scarlatina, diphtheria, &c. PAGE 1 30 46 62 90 100 103 112 122 151 167