Year: 1877

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skill in the use of the microscope ,


do this. Experience is the main fac


tor in the case. Some of the milk


men inform the writer that they ca


distinguish swill.milk from health


milk, as M. Barrnel can the blood {


different species of animals, by tn


smell; and they agree in the statemen


that it will sour much sooner thai


other milk. A scientific gentlemen il


the city Informs me that he has taker


milk from neighbor " ho has small


flock of cows, for some three years


During the first half of that time the


COWS were fed upon healthy food anc


the milk was uniformly good. Since


then a considerable portion of brewers
grains has been added to the food, and
the milk has undergone such change
as to render it impossible to keep it
over night during the hot weather.
A resort has been had to scalding, but
this has only rendered the matter
worse "the milk becoming absolutely
putrid in a single night" The head
OF one of our princlpsl business houses
makes a similar statement to me saying
that putting the milk directly on ice
has made no difference" iu the result.


| have kept record of all my ex-
aminatiops, making drawings under
the microscope of each days observa-
tions of the appearance of diseased and
healthy milk. These drawings from
the two kinds Of milk have been placed
by the side Of each other; and any
person can see at glance the very
marked difference.


| cannot doubt that any one who
would look with me through the mi
croscope, and see the various vile Or
ganisms which manifest themselves in
fresh swill milk even, and notice the
ropy and granular masses which are
always present there. would come to the
conclusion with Mr.. Hallock that
swill milk is too filthy and impure an
article for human food, however much
and for whatever cause it may be en-.
dorsed by those in official position.


In view of the above facts, [ think
that am fully warranted in coming
to the conclusion that anyone who shall
make the statement that there is no
difference between swill-milk and
healthy milk must be wholly unac-
quainted with the facts in the case,
and that therefore such testimony is of
no more value than that of the immor-
tai ten before alluded to. I do not
believe that there is intentional error
in the case, but that such conclusion
has been arrived at from insufficient
data.


Much of the milk obtained in the
markets which I have examined, wheth-
er from swill-fed COWS or otherwise,
has been so manipulated by standing
for some time to allow the cream to
rise and then mixed with fresher milk.
or it has been put in vessels contami-
mated with spores ready to spring into
life.


The microscopic appearance Of milk
from COWS swill-fed and those kept
upon normal food is so different as to
be at once recognized by the unskilled
observer even. Nor as [ said before,
have failed in a single instance in all
my examinations to realize this fact.


Moreover, the drawings sent me from
New York, taken from the milk of
cows swill-fed, kept in close stables,
differ in no manner, from my own,
made from the milk of swill fed COWS
whicsa are allowed their full freedom
during the day to wander in the fields
near the city. In my examinations of
swill-milk | have found pus-globules,
colored nondescript masses Of matter
(perhaps Gtrine and disintegrated red
blood corpuscies), groups of epithelia
cells, colostrum bodies, and in all cases
granular and stringy masses of a yel-
lowish clotted substance, and also
groups Of milk gobules sticking to each
other. This last fact is mentioned as
constantly present by The New York
Opserve1 in fresh-drawn milk from the
COWS in the distillery stables, while in
the case of healthy milk the contrary
is as constantly the fact.


There is another strong evidence Of
the similarity of results in the effect of
swill food under whatever circumstances
it may have been administered, and
that is in the identity Of the diseases
produced by the milk of COWS fed in
whole or part upon this substance, and
kept in close stalls orallowed to wander
at large in the fields or pastures. To
this end give cases which have pass
ed under my immediate notice in this
city.


A. W., age II months, came to
Chicago less than a year since; was
then very healthy and bright, and had
begun to walk alone. Almost as soon
as he commenced the use of the milk
here his health failed, and he soon lost
the power Of locomotion. His symp-
toms became very serious and phys
ician was called in who nrononncad