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specimen of milk. In some cases we did not obtain much but it 

 represented portions secured during different periods of the 

 twenty-four hours. On the whole the analyses show the milk 

 of these cases to be very poor, but some are quite normal so far 

 as proteid, fat, and, carbohydrate are concerned and one or two 

 are exceedingly rich. 



Table of milk analyses. 



Date. 



Normal human milk. 



AusrustS, 1911 



September 25, 1911... 



Case 

 No. 



Vol- 

 ume. 



Specific 

 gravity. 



1.02834 



1.082 



1.032 



L032 



L041 



1.029 



1.029 



1.036 



L020 



L033 



1.034 



1.033 



1.038 



L029 



1.034 



Water. 



Per et. 

 87.30 

 88.26 

 88.95 

 89.75 

 85.75 

 88.27 

 90.37 

 89.43 

 90.52 

 89.03 

 88.39 

 90.14 

 88.10 

 88.27 

 87.12 



Fat. 



Susrar. 



Pro- 

 teid. 



Ash. 



Cal- 

 cium 

 oxide 

 CaO 



(parts 

 per 



1,000 of 

 aah). 



Phos- 

 phorus 

 pentox- 

 ide 

 P2O6 

 (Parts 



per 



1.000 of 



ash). 



Per et. 

 4.00 

 2.82 

 2.29 

 1.76 

 4.05 

 3.52 

 1.76 

 1.06 

 3.52 

 2.11 

 2.46 

 1.06 

 L76 

 3.52 

 3.52 



Per et. 



7.00 

 7.70 

 7.16 

 7.53 

 8.36 

 5.22 

 6.51 

 7.71 

 4.98 

 7.61 

 7.44 

 7.64 

 8.54 

 6.66 

 7.60 



Per et. 

 1.50 

 0.92 

 1.50 

 0.85 

 1.50 

 2.70 

 1.30 

 L70 

 0.90 

 1.15 

 1.50 

 0.90 

 L50 

 L40 

 1.50 



Per et. 

 0.20 

 0.30 

 0.10 

 0.11 

 0.34 

 0.29 

 0.06 

 0.10 

 0.08 

 0.10 

 0.21 

 0.26 

 0.10 

 0.15 

 0.26 



.328 

 1.603 



.473 

 .946 



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1 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 6 

 6 

 7 

 3 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 



215 



265 



195 

 88 

 120 

 46 

 130 

 107 

 149 



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i September 17, 1911... 







September 23, 1911... 







September 26, 1911... 



October 1, 1911 



October 11, 1911 



October 11, 1911 



October 20, 1911 



October 24, 1911 



October 27, 1911 



November 10, 1911... 

 November 15, 1911... 

 December 15, 1911 ... 











L072 



.323 



.742 

 L312 

 L502 



.471 

 .626 

 .663 











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The first line of figures in the table show^s the percentage of 

 the various constituents of milk of the average normal woman 

 as given by Holt. The calcium oxide and phosphorus pentoxide, 

 however, are taken from Hammerstein's Physiological Chemistry 

 and represent the parts per thousand parts of milk. In study- 

 ing the table it is seen that with the exception of four cases, 

 Nos. 3, 6, 10, and 11, the amount of fat is greatly below the 

 the normal. However, it is evident that the lessened amount 

 of fat is not the cause of the disease, as the analysis which 

 shows the largest percentage of fat was from one of the most 

 marked cases we had. 



The amount of calcium oxide is increased from three to four 

 times the normal. 



The amount of phosphorus pentoxide is in one instance ahnost 

 double what it should be. This is interesting when taken in con- 



