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flour unbolted, from one to three or four days 

 old ; bread made of corn meal and rye meal, 

 either separate or mixed ; bread or puddings 

 made of rice, sago, tapioca or corn meal ; po- 

 tatoes, apples, pears, peas, beans, &sc. For 

 infants who have no teeth, milk, as it is well 

 known, forms the best chyle and blood. For 

 adults, a tolerable sort of chyle may be formed 

 of plain but lean meats, fish, milk and eggs ; 

 and an inferior sort, of butter, cheese, cakes, 

 pies, hot bread, beets, turnips, onions, &c. 



All these substances may be better or worse, 

 according as they are more or less broken and 

 ground down with the teeth, and mixed with 

 the saliva ; and according to their quantity. 

 The best of them, if not well masticated, make 

 but an inferior sort of blood ; and the worse, if 

 well masticated, make chyle and blood which 

 answers, in some good degree, the purposes of 

 health. So of quantity : those which are even 

 excellent in their nature, are not so good, if 

 taken in excessive quantity. 



Spirit makes no chyle or blood at all ; wine, 

 cider, ale, beer, coffee and tea, very little, 

 unless milk, sugar, molasses, or something of 

 the kind is mixed with them. Besides this, 



