Excerpt from Milk and Its Hygienic RelationsThe Medical Research Committee are charged with the administra tion of the Research Fund which has become available under the provisions of the National Insurance Act, for the advancement of medical knowledge by research. It falls to their duty, there fore, in the application of that Fund, to aid, to initiate, and to organise the work of scientific enquiry along available lines of advance, towards the enlargement of our powers of preserving health and of diminishing disease.Among the plans for research which the Committee formulated at the beginning of their work, the subject of Milk, in its relations to public health, was naturally included. The study of milk is from its nature what has been called a 'borderland subject, ' and has attracted enquiry by workers employing the widely different technical methods of chemistry, of physiology, of bacteriology, of agricultural science, and of clinical medicine. The results of this work have been published separately in the technical archives and journals devoted to those Special branches of science, and these publications are dispersed widely through the literatures of many different languages. To the workers in any one field the bibliography of his own subject is familiar, or at least easily accessible, but in the case of a subject not falling wholly within the customary' boundaries of a conventional scientific field, it is a matter of difficulty involving great expenditure of time and labour to secure a general view of the state of knowledge as it exists at any given moment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.