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other parts of the organism, these parts must lose ther normal 

 condition." 



" In my experiments on the salting of meat, I used at first a 

 species of salt which subsequently proved, on examination, to 

 contain a considerable proportion of chloride of calcium and 

 chloride of magnesium. I was induced to examine the salt, by 

 observing the brine obtained from meat salted, with it, contained 

 only traces of phosphoric acid. The external aspect of the salted 

 flesh sufficiently explained this unexpected fact ; for 'it was cov- 

 , ered as if with a white froth, consisting chiefly of phosphate of 

 lime and phosphate of magnesia. The earthy salts of the sea 

 salt had entered into mutual decomposition with the alkaline 

 phosphates of the juice, producing phosphates of lime and mag- 

 nesia, of which only very small quantities could be dissolved in 

 the acid brine." 



"In the use of a salt rich in lime and magnesia, there may thus 

 be a cause which renders the meat salted with it less injurious to 

 the system. For it is plain, that when, along with such meat 

 vegetables are eaten which are rich in potash, (and this is the 

 cases with all esculent vegetables,) the conditions are present 

 which determine tlie reproduction, during digestion, of the defi- 

 cient alkaline phosphates. That these latter salts may actually 

 be formed under such circumstances, is shown by the analysis of 

 milk, a fluid rich in alkaline phosphate, compared with that of 

 the fodder or food of graminivorous animals, which last contains 

 no alkaline phosphates, ])ut phosphates of lime and magnesia, 

 •along with salts of the alkalies, with other acids " 



The work from which the above quotation is made, is one of 

 great interest to all who study the s ul ject of domestic economy 

 and presents a clearer view of the subjects upon which it treats, 

 than has before been given, although the distingui>hed author 

 says that it is very incomplete, and can only betaken asau intro- 

 duction to the vast field ui)on whicli it has entereil. 



As illustrative of some of the poiuls in ii, I may state a few of 

 the facts brought out last year * in the report of a committee uf 



* Xbo iuvcati^tioa comiueoccd Feb. 23, and closed April JOth| 18j2. 



