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The Introduction. 
the Blood into the Stomach and Guts, and is there mix’d with 
our comminuted Victuals, is able to open and extract from them 
what is good and proper, whether they be Roots, Stalks, Leaves, 
or Seeds of Vegetables of feveral kinds; Fat or Lean of the Elefh of 
Animals, or parts of them, {weet or fower, acid or Alkali, ’tis all 
one, the beft parts are kept, and the worft, unufeful, or earchy, 
thrown off by Excrements. There will be no need of proving this, 
if we do but confider how many live very well on Vegetables only, 
thinking ic inhuman to kill any thing to eat ; others live on Fiefh 
only, moft on both Vegetables and Flef. Many live on the Irifh 
Patatas, a fort of Solanum, (on which, I have heard, they live in the 
Mines of Potoft, and in Ireland) the common Brakes, as in the late 
Famine in France; on the Roots of Argentina, called Mafcorns, in 
Scotland and the North of Ireland, the Stalks of the Fucus Phafganoides 
called Tangle in Scotland, or on the Roots of Bulbocaftanum or Pignuts. 
The greaceft part of Mankind have cheie chief Suftenance irom 
Grains; as Wheat, Rice, Barley, Oats, Maiz, Buck-wheat, Zea ox 
Spelta, Rye, fome from the Seeds of a wild Grafs called Gramen Man- 
n@ in Poland, or from wild Oats, or Folle Avoie, growing in the 
Lakes of Canada, on which the Indians feed; or from the Seeds of the 
feveral forts of Millecand Panicum. Some in Barbary feed on Pala Oil, 
others on that drawn from Organ or Erguen Nuts, many on Oil 
Olive, or that from Walnuts or Sefamum, which laft is much fed in 
Egypt and the Ea(t-Indies. Kine, Goats, Swine and Sheeps Flefh 
fuftain moft people in thefe parts, and fo does Camels in Arabia, 
and Horfes in Tartary. Moft in Groenland feed on large Draughts of 
Train Oil; and in Bngland the poorer fort have ftrong Nourifhment 
from Milk-meats, (on which feed the longeft Livers) Butter and 
Cheefe. In many parts of the World, as Lapland, ec. Fifh is theit 
chief fubfiftence. | 
Befides thefe already above mentioned, Joachimus Struppius, has 
written a Book printed Francof. 1573. 1 quarto, called Anchora Fa- 
mis,oc. and Giovanni Battifta Segni,trattato fopra la Careftia é fame toc. 
Bol. 1602. in quarto. wherein | find fome of the following Vegerable 
and Animal Produ&tions were made ufe of iff times of Famine,which 
may be not only curious to confider, but ufeful ia the direction of 
others in the like neceffities, fhould it pleafe God to infli& the like 
Calamity. There are likewife other Inftances of extraordinary teed- 
ing taken from other Books, as Voyages, Sieges, ee. Petronins de 
viéiu Romanorum, Mundy, Muffet, vc. Roots, not incation’d alieady, 
affording Suftenance, are Carrots, Parfneps, Parlly, Navews, Skirrets, 
Radifhes, Onions, Turneps, Scorzonera, Saffafte or Tragopogon, Peony, 
Gladiolus, Papyrus, Fennel, Daucus, Afphodil, Liquorice, Bur-roots, 
Whire-thiftle-roots, Alifanders, Satyrium, Traft, Arachidna, @ Bambu. 
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