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ground, neither will it dissolve well in the brewing, and the ale it makes will be 

 red, bitter, and will not keep. 



The best fuel is peat. The next, charcoal, made of pit-coal or cinders. 

 Heath, broom, or furzes, are bad. If there be not enough of one kind, bum 

 the best first, for that gives the strongest impression as to the taste. 



AvTjJ'taT^jfri, Sive Animadversiones in Malachite Thrustoni, M. D. Diatribam de 

 Respirationis Usu primario. Auctore Georgia Entio,* Eg. Aur. M.D. et Col. 

 Land. Soc. 1679. N° 142, p. IO72. 



In this book, besides the anatomical observations, several opinions are pro- 

 posed and defended with the known elegancy and learning of the author. 



It seems probable, says our author, that the finer part of the alimentary juice 

 is transmitted from the stomach and guts, by the mediation of small concave 

 fibres thereto annexed, to the several parts for their nourishment. That the 

 same alimentary juice is that which, in the use of vomitories and cathartics, is 

 by the same concave fibres disgorged into the stomach and guts, and not by 

 lacteal veins, or the arteries. That the water or serum, which is extravasated in 

 hydropic persons, issues not from the sanguiferous vessels ; but that it is the 

 nutritious juice itself, which either by an ulcer in some mesenteric gland, which 

 is not unusual, or an aperture in some lymphaeduct, oozes into the cavity of 

 the abdomen. That the febrific matter in intermittents is not lodged originally 

 in the blood. That the pituita, supposed by Dr. Glisson and others to be spued 

 out of the arteries into the coats of the stomach, is this very nutritious juice, 

 tending to other parts of the body, but upon the death of the animal, by cold 

 and slower motion condensed, and there arrested in its way. That after the 

 same manner milk is also transferred to the breasts. That neither in abscesses, 

 nor in any other case, it is the extravasated blood that suppurates, but only the 

 nutritious or alimentary juice. That accordingly in the small pox, the purulent 

 matter is not derived or bred out of the blood, but out of the aforesaid juice. 

 So that if a woman with child has the small pox, the child is found to have 

 them too, though not one drop of the mother's blood passes into the child. 



* This was one of the most accomplished physicians of the I7th centuiy. He was bom at Sandi. 

 wich in Kent, in l604; and after prosecuting his studies at Cambridge, he went to Padua, where he 

 took his medical degree. On his return from his travels he settled in London; became a member of 

 the Royal Society, and was elected president of the College of Physicians. The honour of knight- 

 hood was conferred upon him by Charles II. He died at an advanced age in 1689. Sir George Ent was 

 one of the most strenuous defenders of the Harveian circulation of the blood, as may be seen by 

 consulting his Apologia pro Circulatione Sanguinis, qua respondetur ^milio Parisano 1641, and af- 

 terwards republished, l685, with considerable additions. The abovementioned tract, entitled Anti- 

 diatriba, and his Apologia were reprinted at Ley den in 16B7, under the title of Entii Opera Physico- 

 medica. 



