fi3 COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE. 



digestive powers, these being greater in the brute, than in man. It even ap- 

 pears plainly to me, that the animal food taken by man is the same as the her- 

 baceous taken by quadrupeds, only that it has meantime undergone the pro- 

 cess of digegition, sanguification and deposition in the solids, &c. and hence 

 arises the difference in the practice of the curative art as applied to the one 

 animal and the other. Every disease is in fact a compound, varying in cif- 

 ferent constitutions, and the composition of the remedy should be adapte<l to 

 evejty variation thereof, even of the same attack. 



