Punch,  32 (1857), 138.

Punch's Complete Tradesman: No. IV  [4/5]

Anon

Genre:

Serial, Dialogue, Spoof

Subjects:

Adulteration, Nutrition, Invention, Technolgy, Crime, Commerce


    Consists of a dialogue between 'Lactea, the Milkmaid of the Poets', and 'Aquaria, the Milkmaid of Society', who tells Lactea that 'the milk thou sellest is not pure' and that her school knowledge of the composition of milk is sadly wrong. At Lactea's request, Aquaria lists the substances with which she adulterates milk including water, treacle, and tragacanth. Lactea urges that 'milk should be the most nutritious of food' and claims that she has foreseen the invention by M. Donne of a Lactoscope, or Milk-tester.



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