Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — KEEPING COW QUIET [ARTICLE]

KEEPING COW QUIET

Milk Affected Where Animal Is §ubje<?t to .Excitement. Well Known Physician Cites Instances Wljere Headaobes Have Been Caused, To Be Obliterated by Weak Tea and Lemon. London. milk comes from cows that have been kept calm, unexcited and in a good temper," will be the guarantee of the honest dairyman of the future. -. r For milk from excited or Irritated cows is, according to the latest scientific opinion, more immediately, though transiently, harmful than when i? contains disease germs. reason is this,” a well known physician declared recently. "When a man is subjected to unpleasant emotions. such as temper, fear or sulki ness, his blood throws out toxins. Intense excitement has the same effect, and this is the cause of the bitter taste in the mouth after such experiences. "Now, these poisonous bodies are eliminated from the blood by means of the various secretory organs of the body, among which are the salivary and that is why their presence is defected by the taste. "In the case of milch cows a definite percentage of the sum of the toxins caused by fright, bad temper or irritability reaches the milk, and in extreme cases will cause it to go bad much before the normal time. “Patients frequently call upon mo and complain that their health, though not radically bad, fluctuates unpleasantly in a way that they can only define as resembling slight, but very unpleasant, liver ailments. “In listening to their descriptions of their symptoms I have been struck by \the fact that many complain that very often they come down to breakfast feeling very fit and hungry after a vigorous cold tubbing, but half an hour are not well. ‘■There are Sensations of headache rather than reaKi) ea< l a che, unpleasant heart sluggishness of thought and a se* l8 ® °* irritability,

even of pronounced, but irrational, apprehension. “This wears off and passes away after lunch, especially if light wine or a beverage containing lemon juice is drunk with it “I got the clew to the cause of these symptoms the other week from a farmer I know, who sends a large quantity of milk to London. “Milk warm from the cow is an excellent nerve tonic, and I went out in the early morning to obtain a glass of it from the milkers, my farmer friend coming with me. “A large cow was being milked, and I asked for a drink to be given me from the pail. “ ‘You’d better not have any of her milk this morning,’ he said. ‘One of the cowmen has just told me that she was chased by a dog in the night. If you drink her milk it may upset you.’ “Then I remembered the toxins thrown out by the blood under such

conditions as the cow had been subjected to, and I thought of my patients who felt upset after breakfast. “Since then I have advised my patients to drink weak tea with a little lemon juice in it Instead of milk, and the results have been good. “Unfortunately, boiling the milk is ,not of much use, for these toxins are not germs, but definitely poisonous secretions, very little, if at all, affected by heat “The remedy is to keep cotvs calm and to drive them very quietly to the milking place. “If one is at all sensitive to alimentary irregularities milk should never be taken unless it is certain that the cow from which it comes was not unduly disturbed for at least eight hours before she was milked. “Milk from a cow that has been in a violent temper, or has been thoroughly frightened, might easily have a serious effect upon a child—throw his blood out of order and upset his nerves for a day or two. In extreme cases it might produce pronounced gastric trouble, very difficult to diagnose and to treat.”