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Excerpt from A Treatise on Koumiss, or Milk Champagne: The Great Russian Remedy for Wasting, Debilitating and Nervous Diseases
Koumiss is not a pharmaceutical preparation proper, but a natural transformation of milk by lacto-alcoholic fermentation. Koumiss is of milk what wine is of grapes, what cider is of apples; that is to say, that the transformation of milk into Koumiss is based on the same chemical laws as the transformation of grapes into wine, and of apples into cider, by alcoholic fermentation. Besides its Latin denomination, vinum Iactis, indicates very well its nature; and it is while considering its source and its physical properties that one of our eminent physicians has so wittily named it milk champagne.
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