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REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



PRESER 



VATION 

 OF MAR I- 



N.E R S . 



difeafes muH: be the natural confcquences. 1 wifli to be underilood, 



on ; I pretend not to fay that an acidulated 



thout mifconflru6t 



diet is the only caufe of convulfive and fpafmodic fymptoms, or the 

 phlogiflic of inflammatory difeafes, or the alkaline of putrid : for 

 there are no doubt many other caufes produ6tive of the fame effeds, 



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^nder various circumftances ; nay, there are external caufes which 

 throw the whole habit into the fame morbific flate that may originate 

 from a certain kind of food. 



Frefh food, both of the animal and vegetable kind, contains 

 proportionate falubrious mixture of acids,, phlogiilon and alkalies 



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efpecially if it be dreifed without any difguife of rich fauces 

 of fpice 



habits : 



a 



4>^ 



and 



to 



redient 



full 



not properly affimilated to our 



therefc 



wond 



that cceterib 



parib 



frefh 



food is not fo pernicious as falted. But if we examine the water, the 



flefli, and all the aliments eaten by the people in 



s during long 



voyages y we find that they have lofl that eq^ual mixture of parts,, 



which alone entitled them to the 



k of falub 



food 



The 



watery if ever fo good when frefli, commonly in a few weeks flinks 

 intolerably, efpecially in hot climates, and is often full of aquatic 

 infeds,. and in cafe thofe infed:s perifh in the water, they putrefy. 



that is, th 



parts 



reilored to a mixture of 



ilitegrant elementary parts y and they foxm commonly a real liver 



