118 ANALYSIS OF COWS* MILK, ETC. 
will be expended, as well as the nature or quality of that 
influence. 
“ Finally, to the most distinguished of the older prescribers 
how strange it would be to tell them, we give up that long 
list of agents that constituted your favourite formulae; we 
are content to try one agent at one time; and as to your 
method of putting your medicines into the body by the 
stomach only, we, in our day, wise as serpents and gentle as 
doves, put them in by the skin if we like, with a sharp tooth, 
or instil them in the vapour by the lungs so subtly, that the 
administration is all but unperceived. Yet this, too, is daily 
done, and with a successful result undreamed of by the earlier 
pilgrims of medical progress, and certain amongst the his¬ 
torical steps of our time to remain .”—The Medical Press and 
Circular, 
ANALYSTS OF COWS’ MILK TAKEN EROM THE ANIMALS 
WHILE ATTACKED BY TYPHUS. 
The milk of twenty-two cows belonging to the same 
proprietor (of which number four were so badly attacked by 
contagious typhus as to necessitate the immediate killing of 
the same, while another batch of four were apparently quite 
well, and fourteen in a doubtful*condition) has been inves¬ 
tigated by the author. It appears that, as compared with 
the composition of normal milk, the milk of all these animals 
became more or less altered as regards the quantity of normal 
constituents, and may be termed very poor; yet, with the 
exception of the milk taken from the four cows which were 
very ill, there was nothing disagreeable about these samples 
of milk, and of the milk, which had got a bad taste and colour, 
a cat drank some 50 grams., without experiencing any bad 
effects. The author draws this conclusion, among others, from 
his researches—that neither the milk nor meat from cows so 
diseased can give the disease to men or other animals not 
belonging to the Puminantia ; yet, very properly, the author 
urges that severe measures should be taken to prohibit the 
use of milk as well as meat of cattle even suspected of being 
attacked by contagious typhus to be used as food; in fact, 
the milk, even at the first beginning of the disease, is entirely 
altered chemically as well as in its histological characters, as 
revealed by the microscope. Samples of milk:—A. From 
the apparently healthy cows. B. From the least ill. C. From 
the worst ill. The Sample A appeared to be milk in its 
