482 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
indigestion. To a tumblerful of curds, and whey, add a tea- 
spoonful of carbonate of soda in powder, or enough to neutralize 
the acid. Sweeten to the taste, and add a grating of nutmeg, 
if liked. This is best when taken hot at bedtime. It is likewise 
helpful against the sleeplessness of Bright’s disease (of the kidneys), 
or albuminuria. Again, a tumblerful of new milk with a table- 
spoonful of sound old rum mixed in it, and sweetening the draught 
if wished, will often answer the sustaining purpose of cod-liver 
oil as an early morning dose, whilst far more palatable and 
stomachic. Still nicer food is the delicate sweetmeat which 1s 
called “junket,” (being actually a cream cheese which bears this + 
name, because brought in or served on rushes, giwnca, a rush), as 
curds mixed with cream, sweetened, and spiced, exquisite food for 
the little people. Thus Milton relates in his beautiful L’ Al/egro:— 
** With stories told of many a feat 
t How faery Mab the junkets eat.” 
A mixture of milk and eggs, especially if sugar is added, 
inevitably curdles if heated to a high temperature, when the 
clear liquid which escapes is whey, and not merely water. This 
liquid may be given as a nutritious and safe drink in typhoid 
fever, as well as milk diluted with barley water, or butter milk, 
or the eau albumineuse (unboiled white of egg mixed with cold 
water). During convalescence the best beverage is toast-water. 
In new milk, by churning, the oil globules which have already 
risen to the surface through standing (and which consist mainly 
of fat, mixed with some curd, and retaining some whey) unite 
to form Burrer; whilst the liquid residue is butter-milk, which 
is essentially a solution of milk sugar, with the mineral salts, 
principally phosphates, retained therein, also some wandering 
butter elements. “Those persons,” says Professor Koch 
admonitorily, “‘ who are nervous lest the milk they drink should 
contain elements of typhoid fever, or other mischief, should 
remember that these bacilli may just as probably lurk in the 
butter, (which cannot be boiled as a preventive).” Freshly 
made dairy butter, uncooked, may be eaten freely against chronic 
constipation, especially by persons in years, and by thin persons 
oi active habits. The chief point in which butter-milk differs 
from new milk is thus shown to be its poverty of fat, whilst 
otherwise it is nutritious, digestible, and refreshing, though to 
some patients the taste is disagreeable. Butter-milk is used 
