On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:33:16 +0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, polygonum disturbed my reverie and
wrote:

For as a baby he was very ill and was
given donkey milk - which, apparently, is about the closest to human
milk of all the reasonably common animals.

There is a tribe of nomadic Arabs who survive on camel's milk mixed
with camel's blood when crossing the desert.

They get the blood by nicking the veins in the neck.

No doubt 'Rod Slow' would approve as the camels would be fully aware
that they were not being killed LOL.
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Cheers

DrT
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