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fpccies of chyle, a purely nutritive fubftance, 

 without any mixture : It, of courfe, confifts 

 entirely of organic and prolific matter, which, 

 when not properly digefted by the ftomach, and 

 applied to the nourifhment and growth of the 

 body, allumes, by its natural activity, other 

 forms, and produces animated beings, or worms, 

 in fuch profufion, that the child is often in dan- 

 ger of being deflroyed by them. The bad ef- 

 fedis occafioned by worms might perhaos be 

 prevented, by allowing children to drink a little 

 wine ; becaufe fermented liquors have a tenden- 

 cy to prevent the generation of worms : Fer- 

 mented liquors likewife contain few organic nu- 

 tritive particles ; and it is chiefly by ading on 

 the folids, that wine communicates ftrength to 

 the body ; for it contains little nourifhment. Be- 

 fides, moft children are fond of wine ; or, at 

 leaft, they are eafily accuftomed to drink it. 



Though the bodies of infants be extremely 

 delicate, they are Icfs fenfible of cold than at 

 any other period of life. Their internal heat, 

 it would appear, is proportionally greater : The 

 quicknefs of the pulfe in children feems to for- 

 tify this opinion. Small animals, for the fame 

 reafon, have unqueflionably more heat than large 

 ones J for the adion of the heart and arteries 

 increafes in proportion to the comparative fmall- 

 nefs of animals, which takes place in the fame, 

 as well as in different fpecies. The pulfe of an 

 infant, or of a little man, is more frequent than 



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