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matter will be carefully avoided that can 

 tend to perplex the mind or embarrass the 

 judgment. It would, therefore, be deviating 

 widely from the plan originally formed for 

 the accommodation of general comprehen- 

 sion, were we, by unnecessary introduction, 

 to enter into the very extensive field of ana- 

 tomical structure and animal mechanism, de- 

 monstrating physically by what adnnrable 

 means the excrementitious part of aliment is 

 ejected from tlie stomach and conveyed 

 throus^h the intestinal canal, when divested 

 of its more subtle and nutritious properties ; 

 which being totally absorbed by an infinity 

 of vessels in the very work of digestion, is 

 carried into the circulation, and there con- 

 stitutes, by its different secretions, the source 

 of life and support ; from which systematic 

 transformation is derived that formation of 

 blood, that gradual enlargement of flesh and 

 bone, only to be explained by much literary 

 information on one side, and understood by 

 no small portion of medical knowledge on 

 the other. 



It will consequently suffice to say, that 

 the reader, whose mind is more enlarged. 



