CHAPTER III 



WHY cow's MILK? 

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The use of the milk of animals as food by the 

 human race is of great antiquity. It probably 

 began with the domestication of animals, which 

 Morgan has described as one of the four preeminent 

 accomplishments of barbarism/ even if it did not 

 precede that great achievement and serve as one of 

 the causes which led to it. In any case, the dietetic 

 use of milk is one of the oldest of human customs, 

 being incalculably aged. The earliest Hebrew Scrip- 

 tures and Homer's Iliad contain abundant evidence 

 of its widespread prevalence in very early times.^ • 



Biologically considered, milk is a whitish, opaque, 

 living liquid which is secreted by the mammary 

 glands of the females among aU the animals called 

 "mammals" for the nourishment of their young. 

 Man is a mammal and belongs, biologically, in a class 

 with apes and monkeys, dogs and cats, sheep and 

 goats, camels and elephants, horses and cows, and 

 even whales, porpoises, and dolphins. It is the 

 fact that all these animals, as well as many others, 

 suckle their young which causes them to be thus 



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