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Materia Alimentaria

Milk

part is less in women, when living on vegitables. Milk. In
what manner is the milk secreted, from its resemblance
to chyle it has been supposed to pass immediately from the
Lacteals to the mamma, and not to be secreted from the
general mass of blood. I have already given my opinion,
the odour and taste of food is certainly communicated to the milk
they are sometimes both evident from the milk of cows, Bergius
says that matter coulors the milk, it certainly does the serum
of the blood, fat about the joints, and sometimes the perspirable
matter. Purges given to the nurse have a similar effect upon
the child, this is generally the case if retained long enough. Dr
Cooper informed me that a child sucking the milk of its
mother under a Ptyalism was completely salivated, the Dr observes
he cannot be certain whether this effect was produced by the
milk or by perspiration. Dr Hammilton says he has detected
the globules of mercury in the milk of women under
Ptyalism by a slow evaporation. I have myself been salivated
by being exposed to the fresh fumes of mercury from a
patient under Ptyalism. Dr Hoffman relates several cases of
children, being intoxicated from sucking drunken women,