2 10 -The 'Book of the Goat. 



perfectly healthy. On analyses of the milk of the animals 

 and the vomit of the persons attacked colchicum was dis- 

 covered in both, its passage into the milk being regarded 

 as the cause of the poisoning. 



Goats' milk in connection with the " Malta," or, more 

 correctly, Mediterranean, fever will be found dealt with 

 in Chapter XXVI., page 295. 



Formation in 



Sometimes the udder of a goat will produce, each time 

 she is milked, a white curd-like formation, which chokes 

 up the orifice of the teat and causes much trouble to the 

 milker and some pain to the goat. A sample of this sub- 

 stance was submitted by me on one occasion to the 

 analyst of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, Mr. 

 F. J. Lloyd, F.C.S., F.I.C., of 6, Trinity Square, E.G., 

 who wrote in reply as follows : " The material which 

 you sent me as coming fr-om the goat is most interesting. 

 When I first saw it it appeared to me to be a little caseous 

 matter, but I was surprised when I examined it under 

 the microscope to find that it was not casein, but consisted 

 of a mass of cells such as I have seldom, if ever, seen 

 before. The cells are a very great size and very regular 

 in shape, but most devoid of internal structure. The 

 nearest approach to them that I know of are the epithelial 

 or squamous cells found in the mouth, but these are nearly 

 always irregular in shape, while the cells of the material 

 you sent me were most regular. After examining the 

 material, I sent it on to Mr. Cecil Revis, thinking it might 

 interest him, as he is engaged in an investigation of the 

 cellular contents of milk. He writes : ' It is the kind of 

 cell which I have noted once or twice in the milk of certain 

 cows. I say the word " cell " in a careful manner, because 

 I cannot settle at all what these bodies really are, and I 

 have shown them to one or two other people who have 



