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Abstracts and Reviews of Dairy Literature

Milk as a Galactagogue¹

ABSTRACT

A paper by Dr. Chas. H. Duncan,² followed by several inquiries regarding the correctness of the claims made by its author as to value of injecting "each cow with a half ounce or more of her own milk on the third, fifth and tenth day after delivery" in order "to insure her doing her duty toward supplying milk," was made the basis for the experiments reported.

The method used by Palmer and Eckles for attacking the question whether milk itself can act as a galactagogue was to inject the milk of a fresh, heavy milking cow into the body of another cow of the same breed, whose milk production had also been heavy when fresh but which had decreased greatly due to a more advanced state of lactation.

Two such experiments were performed in which 20 cc. of milk from a fresh cow were injected subcutaneously into each shoulder of a cow advanced in lactation, injections being made on three alternate days. Careful records were kept of the daily milk flow prior to, during and following the injections. The results were entirely negative.

¹ Abstract of an article by L. S. Palmer and C. H. Eckles, on Milk as a Galactagogue, in New York Medical Journal, cviii, pp. 375–376, 1918.

² Chas. H. Duncan. A New and Powerful Galactagogue, New York Medical Journal, cv. pp. 22–23, 1917.