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more perfedl Mixture of its Parts, preferving its 

 due Crafis and Fluidity, and incorporating the 

 Chyle, and other Juices it receives, with it. 



X. The Wifdom and Goodnefs too of the di- 

 vine Former of our Bodies, appears in the Nou- 

 rifliment of them ; for that Food which is of a 

 wholfome Juice, and proper to nourifli and pre- 

 ferve them in a healthful State, is both pleafant 

 t(5 the Tafte and grateful and agreeable to the 

 Stomach, and continues to be fo till our Hunger 

 and Thirft be well appeased, and then begins to 

 be lefs pleafant, and at laft even naufeous and 

 loathfome. The full Stomach loaths the Honey- 

 Comb, 



On the other fide, that which is unwholfome 

 and unfit for Nourifhment, or deftru6live of 

 Health, is alfo unpleafant to the Tafte and un- 

 grateful and difagreeable to the Stomach, and 

 that more or lefs, according as it is more or lefs 

 improper or noxious ; and though there be fome 

 Sorts of Food lefs pleafant to the Tafte, which 

 by ufe may be render'd grateful, yet to Perfons 

 that are in health, and in no neceffity of ufing 

 fuch Viands, I think it were better to abftain 

 from them, and follow Nature, in eating fuch 

 things as are agreeable to their Palate and Sto- 

 mach ; for fuch unpleafant Diet muft needs alter 

 the Temper of the Body before it can become 

 acceptable, and doubtlefs for the worfe. 



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