[39] Parkes.
Although the evidence as to the power of the milk of animals affected with epizootic diseases to convey the particular affection to human beings is contradictory, there is little reason to doubt that soured milk may become a carrier of infection from the ailing or convalescent subject to the healthy one.
Typhoid and scarlet fever have been known to have originated in this manner.
The outbreak of the former malady in Marylebone in 1874 was traced to the contamination of milk by the remains of the water which had been used in rinsing the milk pans. This water had been obtained from a well into which the excrete from a typhus patient had percolated from a privy.
At Leeds a similar outbreak was caused by the absorption by the milk of the typhoid effluvium. In the case of scarlet fever the malady has been conveyed by means of the throat-discharges and cuticle falling into the milk from the persons of servants and others employed in dairies.
Milk, Al′mond. See Emulsion and Mixture.
Milk, Arrowroot. Prep. From arrowroot, 1 table-spoonful, first wetted and stirred with a little cold water, afterwards adding, gradually, of boiling water, 1⁄4 pint; and, lastly, of boiling milk, 1⁄2 pint; with sugar, spice, wine, &c., to palate. Very nutritious, and excellent
in chronic diarrhœa. Some persons employ all milk.
Milk, Choc′olate. Prep. Dissolve chocolate (scraped), 1 oz., in boiling new milk, 1 pint. Nutritious; but apt to offend delicate stomachs.
Milk, Cof′fee. Prep. 1. Coffee, 1 oz.; boiling water, 1⁄4 pint; infuse for 10 or 15 minutes in a warm situation, and add the strained liquid to boiling milk, 3⁄4 pint.