394 DETAILED SYNTHESIS. 



vent cooking. Man only of all creatures has the mind to make the 

 greatest of inventions, fire, or its applications, in the highest degree 

 humanizing ; not the least of which is its application to cooking. Let 

 it be always wholesome, always palatable. Economical science says, 

 let nothing be wasted: the brown is the best part of wheat; sour, 

 skimmed, and buttermilk are for warm weather, and being animalized, 

 should not be fed to brutes, etc. Physiology says food should be en- 

 joyed. Good cooking perfectly harmonizes the two. 



SECTION IX. 

 Elimination : Eliminatory Apparatus. 



1295. THE DIFFERENT ORGANS OF THE ELIMINATORY 

 APPARATUS do not act together to accomplish the same 

 precise works ; therefore, in one sense, they should not 

 be conjoined in one apparatus. 



1296. Yet, WEN ANY ONE ELIMINATORY ORGAN CAN- 

 NOT ACCOMPLISH ITS OFFICE, it will be attempted by one 

 or several of the others ; thus showing that they are as- 

 sociated indirectly with the same nervous centres. 



1297. THERE is, THEREFORE, GREAT PRACTICAL BEN- 

 EFIT in grouping the perspiratory glands and the kid- 

 neys as special, and the lungs, liver, and digestory canal 

 as additional, organs of an eliminatory apparatus. 



SECTION X. 

 Modification : Modificatory Apparatus. 



1298. THE MODIFICATORY ORGANS can only be con- 

 sistently grouped together as an apparatus, by supposing 

 that the spleen and lymphatic glands are concerned in 

 the production or perfection of Blood-cells. That is 

 probably the case. But what is the office of the Thy- 

 roid ? Yet to class together various organs will serve 

 to keep them in the memory, and whatever their special 

 office, they certainly in some way modify the Blood. 



1295. What said of? 1296. What occurs ? 1297. in what? 1298. What 

 said of - ? 



