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 vriR 

 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 fjlaims liaving been put forward. 



