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GLANDS AND 



Sect.VI. 4. I. 5 





IV 



I. 



Many feed 



or flarch ; as nuts, almonds, 



contain alfo a bitter or narcotic material 



much oil mixed with their mucilage 

 flax-feed, rape-feed. Some of thef 



bitter almond 



apr 



kernels, acorns, horfe>chefnuts ; which, as it adheres to the m 



lage, may be feparated from the oil ; as i 

 bitter almonds, which is as good as from fw 



\ 



1 expreffing the oil from 

 eet ones. And it is pro- 

 bable by grating to powder, and wafhing in cold water, the kernels 

 of acorns, and horfe-chefnuts 5 or fimply by preflure, that a whole- 

 fome flarch, or oil, might be procured. It is probable alfo that the 

 roots of fern treated in this manner would afford good nourifliment, 

 as thefe are faid to be eaten by the inhabitants of New Zealand, and 

 have been ufed in this country in times of great fcarcity. And tha 

 the roots of nymphasa, water-lily, might be thus made into whole 

 fome bread, (which are faid to have been eaten in Egypt by Hero 

 dotus) and the roots of many other water-plants, which might 

 become articles of fubaquatic 



thus 



agriculture, which is an art much 



ted in this country. See Seft. XI. 2. 5. and XVII 



V. 



ted 



The digeftive power of animals feems 



o 



heir food into fu 



be principally 



mals refembles 



^•^^ 



fince the chyle of 



of acid, as 



milk, which contains much fugar, and thence fpon- 

 fly runs into fermentation, which terminates in the produflion 



butter-milk 



In Siberia the natives diftil a fp 



d intoxicating liquor from milk thus fermented. Gmel 



diabet 



th 



fon to bel 



n. In th 

 that the chyle palTes off into th 



e 



nd th 



bladder without being'previoufly mixed with the blood 



a curious hiflory of a patient in the infirmary at Stafford, wh 



d und 



diabetes, he eat and drank th 



much 



la- 

 mo ft 





moderate men, and from fixteen to eighteen ounces, and even twenty 

 ounces of coarfe fugar was extraaed for fome time daily from his 



2. 



, Zoonomia, Vol. I. Se£l. XXIX. 4. 



In like manner the digeilive powers of th 



young 



with the chemical agents of heat and moiflure, convert the flarch 



ble 



mucilag 



.f 



