66 MILK-ANALYSIS. 



inspecting these analyses, and, as might have been expected, 

 koumiss, as it grows older, loses sugar and total solids. 



It is claimed for koumiss that it presents the caseine in a 

 form specially assimilable by invalids, and that koumiss will 

 sometimes nourish persons when nothing else will nourish. 

 It is not the place, in a work like the present, to discuss how 

 far these claims are made good, but it is right to call atten 

 tion to the fact of such claims having been put forward. 



