Vegetable Stanch. 



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made in man, to carry off above half of 

 what he takes in, by other evacuations. 



For fince neither the furface of his body 

 was extenftve enough to caufe fufficient ex- 

 halation, nor the additional wreak , arifing 

 from the heat of his blood, could carry off a- 

 bove half the fluid, which was necefTary to be 



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difcharged every twenty four hours j there 

 was a neceflity of providing the kidneys, 

 to percolate the other half thro'. 



And whereas it is found, that feventecn 

 times more enters, bulk for bulk, into the 

 fap vefTels of the plant, than into the veins 

 of a man, and goes off in twenty four hours : 

 One reafon of this greater plenty of frefh 

 fluid, in the vegetable than the animal body, 

 may be, becaufe the fluid which is filtrated 

 thro' the roots immediately from the earth, 

 is not near fo full fraighted with nutritive 

 particles as the chyle which enters the lacteals 

 of animals ; which defed it was necefTary to 

 fupply by the entrance of a much greater 

 quantity of fluid. 



And the motion of the fap is thereby much 



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accelerated , which in the heartlcfs vege- 

 table would other wife be very flow* it ha- 

 ving 





