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matter will be carefully avoided that can 

 tend to perplex the mind or embarrafs the 

 judgment. It would, therefore, be deviating 

 widely from the plan originally formed for 

 the accommodation of general com.prehen-!- 

 lion, wxre we, by unneceffary introduction, 

 to enter into the very extenfive field of ana- 

 tomical firudlure and animal mechanifm, 

 demonftrating phyfically by what admirable 

 means the excrementitious part of aliment is 

 rejected from the ftomach and conveyed 

 through the inteftinal canal, when diveiled 

 of its more fubtle and nutritious properties ; 

 which being totally abforbed by an infinity 

 of vefiTels in the very work of digeflion, is 

 carried into the circulation, and there confti- 

 tutes, by its different fecrctions, the fource 

 of life and fupport ; from w^iich fyflem.atic 

 transformation is derived that formation of 

 blood, that gradual enlargement of flefli and 

 bone, only to be explained by much literary 

 information on one fide, and underftood by 

 no fmall portion of medical knowledge on 

 the other. 



It will confequently fufficc to fay, that 

 the reader, whofe mind is more enlarged, 



whofe 



