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pear to be beyond even the reach of time, which has 
neither abated their force nor diminished their fame ; 
for, when all other remedies fail, the modern valetu- 
dinarian, like the ancient, is dismissed to mountain 
air and whey diet. The lives of literary men furnish 
many striking instances of its nourishing as well as 
sts medicinal properties. Boerhave persevered in the 
use of it, to the exclusion of other food, for many 
months; and Furguson‘for many years. Its effect in 
fatning hogs is universally known. ‘This nutritive 
property exists in the mucus sugar with which it 
abounds; the extraction of which has long employ- 
ed the science and industry of the Swiss cantons.(1) 
eee 
(1) See Lichtenstein and Rocol, on the sugarof milk. The maximum of iis quanti- 
ty 1-28th; the minimum 1-60th. Scheele has shown, that this saccharine matter dif- 
fers essentially from the sugar ofeares, ‘See Fourcroy’s Chemistry, vol. ix. 
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