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less, unsightly, of a very nauseous smell ; and 

 it would be difficult to imagine that the most 

 avaricious trickster would dare to offer even 

 the most presentable parts of it for sale and 

 consumption. But when the expedients and 

 artifices known to the butcher's trade are 

 had resort to, when, regardless of the public 

 health, the unprincipled dealer selects the 

 most fleshy parts, when he dresses and 

 adorns them by colouring them over with the 

 blood of a healthy beast, the unwary eye of 

 the purchaser may be deceived. Observe, that 

 we are now speaking of cattle that have died 

 in the last stage of this marasmus, so that we 

 might suppose, even if the many summonses 

 before the magistrates, and the too moderate 

 fines which have been imposed on the guilty 

 parties, had not shed the broadest light upon 

 the fact, that a large number of sick cattle which 

 had been slaughtered at different stages of this 

 frightful disease, have been dressed and adorned, 

 exposed for sale, sold, and eaten by a very large 

 portion of the inhabitants of London and of the 

 country likewise. 



Digestive Channels. The mucous membrane 

 of the buccal cavity is, for the most part, of a 



