Shaken Milk.

Otago Witness, Issue 2510, 23 April 1902, Page 64

Shaken Milk.

Milk is a perfect food. The testimony of Nature upon this point is confirmed by the analysis of the chemist. Yet cow's milk i»- in bad repute for infants, and thousands of adults cannot drink it without harm. This is a «erioiis matter. Multitudes of infants are -shut up to the use of cow's milk, while it is precisely what many invalid adults seem to require for the building up of the starved tissues. The matter is all the more important because physicians of the present day, instead of withholding food, as was formerly done in typhoid fever r-nd certain other diseases, seek to maintain the patient's strength by the use of milk. In the Medical Record some years ago, Dr John C. Morgan expressed the opinion that the trouble with cow's milk is that it undergoes unwholesome chemical changes prior to its use. When fresh from the cow, it is a perfectly homogeneous fluid. Within a few hours it separates into cream and caseous milk, with a tendency to a still further separation into whey and curd. This final sepnration takes place rapidly after the milk is received into the stomach, and the curd, in weak htomachs, hardens into a solid cheese-like mass, as difficult) of digestion as cheese itself. The original condition and digestibility of milk can be restored, in Dr Morgan's views, by vigorously shaking it just before taking it into the stomach, and he urges that the milk be sipped, and not taken in large swallows. Among the ca&es successfully treated by Dr Morgan was one of a physician 52 years old, to whom milk had always been injurious. The result was remarkable. The patient's report was — "I, who for many years have never dared to drink a gla&s of milk, am now daily taking it in the new way, and am building up on it." The process of preparation is described thus : — A conical tin cup is closely fitted! over a glas>s of milk, and the whole is violently shaken for some time, after which it should be immediately drunk, or rather sipped.

— A funeral on bicycle 1 ; has taken place i-ecently at Scardovi. A cycle maker, finding himself dying, expressed a wish that; his funeral should be, so far as possible, a bicycle funeral. His coffin was accordingly placed on a frame between two tandems and taken to tho cemetery, ttvo miles distant. Several of Ins friends followed on their bicycles, and tho procession was headed by a local band in a brake.