APPENDIX. 521 



PAGE 42. Vicarious secretion of milk. A singular case of 

 this nature is recorded in Vol. I, p. 65. During the last summer 

 the following case has been published. Professor Cannobio 1 

 received five or six ounces of a liquid that flowed from an ab- 

 scess in the thigh of a woman who was suckling. In appear- 

 ance it resembled whey, but was somewhat whiter. It was 

 homogeneous, and, after remaining in a bottle for thirty-five 

 hours, threw down no sediment. Its specific gravity was 

 1010. It remained alkaline for seven days, and then became 

 slightly acid. On the addition of a few drops of acetic acid, it 

 became slightly turbid, but there was no sensible deposit until 

 the expiration of the second day. 



On analysing the fluid according to Haidlen's directions, it 

 was found to contain in 1000 parts : 



Water .... 982-64 



Solid constituents . . . 17-36 



Butter with traces of cholesterin . . 2*77 



Sugar of milk, soluble salts, and alcohol-extract 7'29 



Casein and insoluble salts . . . 6'25 



Fragments of linseed from poultices, &c. . 1'06 



PAGES 42 and 49. Milk. The references to the plate are 

 omitted in the text. (See plate 2, figs. 13* A and B.) 



PAGE 61. The reader would do well to consult Dr. Davy's 

 paper on ' the colostrum of the cow/ in the Medico-Chirurg. 

 Transactions, 1845. 



PAGE 67. Bitches' milk. Dumas 2 has recently published 

 some analyses of the milk of bitches, the object of his paper 

 being to show that, after they have been restricted for some 

 time to a purely animal diet, all traces of sugar disappear from 

 the milk. A bitch fed on bread, meat, bone, and fat, yielded 



milk containing : 



Water . . . . 69-80 



Solid constituents 30-20 



Butter 



Extractive matter 

 Casein 

 Soluble salts 

 Insoluble salts 



12-40 

 2-50 



13-60 

 0-71 

 0-77 



The sugar in this instance crystallized on the surface of the 

 extractive matter. 

 1 Journal de Pharmacie, Aout, 1845. 2 Annales des Sciences Nat., Sept. 1845. 



