On the heat value of milk

Milk may be defined as the fluid secreted in the lacteal gland of female mammals for the nourishment of their young. This definition is satisfactory enough from the scientific point of view if we add that the animals should be healthy. In other words, we are not to understand by milk any fluid which can be squeezed from the teat of the female. Pus might be so obtained in certain states, and while it would fulfil the first condition of the definition, it would be worse than useless for the nourishment of the young, and it would not occur in a healthy animal.

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Edinburgh

Year dc:date.issued

1905

Author dc:creator

• Hall, Andrew Alexander

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28183

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:era.ed.ac.uk:1842/28183