RDENERS' CHRONICLE, 



[Feb. 17, 



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gardeners will repudiate it. They shrink 



ndering them at the same time agreeable t< 



ust lie recollected, tlwt unless iii some degree pala 



.• food w,,ulil .ither not be tab . 



r health and vigour, or if introduced into the sy 



ther rejected or imperfectly- assimilated. 



upplying us with all that is necessary f or hSnT 

 iistence ; but here experience has got the st** 





' * capable 

 even the k 



11 states of society, aud the entire population in several 

 hilst Mutual food is always taken intermixed with 



i'erlrij.s a remaik of Dr. Prout's may point at the 





namely an albuminous principle, an oily, and a sac- 

 charme one. These then, therefore, may be regarded 

 as the essential ingredients in every complete dietarj. 

 The two former are present in meat, provided it con. 

 sist of fat as well as lean, but the third can only be 

 furnished by vegetables. It would seem, therefore, 



and gum, are important' parts of human subsistence, 



Lr ■: us turn then to the lean part of the flesh of animal?, 

 nd consider what substances it may be expected to oon- 



norous ana cellular tissues, to whicn X.iebig nas gi«n 



which has recently been examined by Liebig, denomi- 

 nated /creatine. It exists in the flesh of all animals, 



lions, that (if fowls yielding the niosr, bein 4 ab ■u::'-i r- 



( iy-\-.osi. - in pr -in,, and very tvld.c in « ur. I; 

 » i ... . -, v u'i ate Jc.m,'tho pioportton is mutb 



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 gradient t;i the juice of flesh, and appears to perform, 

 .(.u.i i „ to 1 , i : , ^ m, very n . nn |n 

 and, consequently, may be regarded as the substance 

 «hich imj aits aJi :, j to it, for although Prout obtain* 

 from the gab trie jui e by distillation lice mmLtic ; ' 



Papin's Digester, be 

 male, might be made 





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