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quicken it too much, nor does it Caufe that flow 

 circulation, like other farinous fubftances. A light 

 decodion of bread is a very wholefonrie nourifhment 

 and beverage in agues, putrid fevers, and in the 

 cholera morbus. 



The aphorifm which M. Linguet quotes above, 

 is an error of the lead enlightened times. I dare 

 tffirm, th^ no perfon ever died of indigeftion from 

 bread , and in oppofition to this quotation, 1 fhall 

 bring an authority more refpedtable than the fchool 

 of Salernum. You know, fir, that Hippocrates 

 remarks, that in a fcarce feafon of wheat, when 

 they were obliged to fubfift on other vegetables, 

 many paralytic complaints appeared, the natural 

 confequence of bad food and relaxed fibres. 



We may further add, that if the fuperiority of 

 wheat, above all other edible grain, had not been 

 demcnftrated by fo many indubitable fa6ls, it 

 would be proved by the feveral accurate trials of 

 M. M. Beccari, Kersel, Mever, Roell, and 

 Macker, upon flour j that the glutinous or ani- 

 malized fubftance, abfolutely unknown till within 

 thefe forty years, which is the fourth part of wheat 

 flour, and of v/hich the flours of other grain have 

 fcarcely any, feeins defigned to render this flour 



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