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Reblogged by jwz:

Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

One of the major scientific achievements of the 19th century was milk that didn’t kill babies.

People seem to have forgotten the importance of that.

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• Illustration from the Chicago Department of Health circa 1912 describing how to Pasteurize milk at home. “A few bacteria in milk as It leaves the farm can become millions by the time it reaches the consumer in the city. One-third of the city's milk supply contains more than 1,000,000 bacteria in each fifteen drops.”