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MANURES. 



Sect. X. r. 2. 



In their adult flate animals are fuftained by other vegetable or ani- 

 lal fubftances taken into their ftomachs, which are there converted 

 ito chyle partly by a chemical, and partly by an animal procefs ; as by 

 mixture of gaftric juice with water and heat, fome of thefe recre- 



jr into their fimpler 

 component parts, or fometimes even into their elements ; while other 

 parts of them are only rendered foluble or mifcible with water ; and 

 are then drank up by the abforbents of the flomach and Inteftines. 



In this procefs of digeftion much fugar is produced, which is pro- 

 bably immediately feleded and drank up by the numerous mouths of 



ments of organic nature are decompofed, eith 





the laiSleal 



lymph 



which 



prefented by the vermi 



perlftaltic motions of the ftomach and intell: 



And 



eady fele£l 



d abforp 



of the fu 



^^^ 



as foon as it is formed 



prevents it from paffi 



the vinous or acetous ferment 



It 



is probable that from the want of fuch a means of feparatino- fac- 



chemiftry has not yet been 



charine matter, as foon as 



formed 



able to produce fugar from its elements without the affiftance of 



m 



digeftion, or vegetable germination 



as further fpoken of in 



No. 8 



of this feci 



/ 



} 



fu 



In this procefs of digeftion, I believe, a great part of the \ 

 ~"" mucilage, and oil, which exift in vegetable and anim 



a 



& 



crements 



decompofed into their elements, but abforbed 



l:)eing foluble or mifcible with water ; the carbon, and th 



phorus, and the hydro 



fluids by means of oxy 



their being converted into gafles \ for when th 



cefs in r( 



phof- 



are alfo. I fuppofe difTolved in the other 

 and form a part of the chyle, without 



.s happens to any ex - 



fpe6l to carbon, it efcapes from the ftomach in erud 



d the fame 



the water becomes decompofed in the inteft 



the inflammable air or hydrogen, if a part of 



hich, if it be 



ab{<-)rbed by its folution in other fluids, but acquires a gafleous ftate 



is liable to efcape below ; though both thefe gaffes feem occafionally 



to 



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