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the foot, the legs, and even the thigh, which 

 last dropped from the cotyloid cavity. It was 

 the same with the upper extremities ; and 

 instances had occurred in the hospital of Or- 

 leans of persons living several weeks after 

 their legs and arms had rotted off, and 

 nothing remained but the bare trunk ; for 

 this dropping off of the limbs was never fol- 

 lowed by hemorrhage. 



Rye is commonly sown on poor, dry, lime- 

 stone, or sandy soils, where wheat will not 

 thrive. By continuing to sow it on such soil 

 for two or three years, it will at length ripen 

 a month earlier than that which has been 

 raised for years on strong cold ground ; but it 

 is the nature of the corn to ear a month before 

 wheat, from which arises the saying, that 

 April never goes out without an ear of rye, 

 nor May without an ear of wheat. 



According to Tissot, horned rye is such as 

 suffers an irregular vegetation in the middle 

 substance between the grain and the leaf, 

 producing an excrescence of a brownish 

 colour, about an inch and a half long, and 

 two-tenths of an inch broad. By immoderate 

 rains, the lower corn of the ears of rye, when 

 ripe, grow out into a black purple grain ; or, 

 as C. Bauhine expresses it, some seeds are 



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