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happens to Cows pafturing on very four 
Grafs ; but in the former Cafe the Curd is 
ragged, foft, fpongy, and yellow, or red- 
di(h ; in the latter it is white and harder. 
The fame Cows feeding on different Paf- 
tures and Soils, give different kinds of Milk, 
both in Colour, Oiiinefs, Tafte, Confiftence, 
and Effedts on our Bodies 5 great is the Odds 
of Milk given by Cows on four Grafs, Sum- 
mer Pafture, Fog or Addifh, cool Herbs, 
Aromaticks, Capillaries, and fuch odorife-* 
rous Plants as abound with effential volatile 
Oils or Salts, &c. Milkalfo differs accord- 
ing to the Keeping, Strength and Age of 
the Cow ; one clean kept both at Stall and 
Pafture, eats frefh good Food, drinks pure 
Water, lies clean, foft and warm, gives 
much better and wholfomer Milk, freer 
from excrementitious Difcharges that fhould 
be carried off by other Outlets, than one 
that is kept otherwife. A leanifh, weakifh, 
or idle Cow, gives more Milk in propor- 
tion than a fat, ftrong, brifk, ftirring, ac- 
tive one 5 an old Cow more than a very 
young Beaft, &c. 
Milk drop’d or milked into the Eye, 
gives no Smart nor Pain ; and Boerbaave * s 
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