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DISEASES 



Sect. XIV. 2. 8i 



ment than generally falls to the lot of thefe difeafed flieep, on fuppo- 

 fition that they would eat it. 



The rot of fheep, I fufpea, arifes from the inaaivlty of the abfor- 

 bent velTels of the liver of that animal ; whence the bile is too dilute^ 

 efpecially in moift feafons ; whence the flewk-worm, as I have feeii 

 m the fhambles,. inhabits the common bile-dud, and at leno-th erodes 



; liver, caufing ulcers ;: whicbfrom thefympathy of the luno-s with 



the liver occ 

 of the matter 



h 



d a he6l 



fever from the abforption 

 Hence the fait by its additional ftimulus. may render 



parts 



bile lefs dilute by promoting a greater abforption of its aq 



w 



to 



fecretion of 



Id be much more 



hich however I fufpcd 



fficacious, if about fixty grains of iron-filino-s, 



made into a ball with flour was given every morning for a week 

 with the fait, as further explained in Zoonomia, Part III. Art. 4. 2 

 6^ 4. 



Since writing the above account of common fait as a condiment 

 nd the probable confequences attending the ufe of it, I h 



>- 



met 



with fome experiments publifhed by Lord Kaimes in his Gentleman 



Farmer, which feem much 



watered fom 



firm the preced 



Jerufalem artichokes,, helianth 



o 



tuberofus 



He 



hich, 



were planted in feparate pots, with, a folution of fixed vegetable al- 

 kali, others with volatile alkali, others with weak lime wat'er, others 



with ftrong lime water, oth 



with putrid, urine, and laflly oth 



with water impregnated with putrid animal and vegetable fubftaii^^o,, 

 1 fuppofe as they exift in a dunghill. All. thefe faline folutions at firft. 

 encouraged the growth of the refpeaive^^ants, fo as much to fur- 

 pafs thofe in the pot, which was moiftened only with common wa- 



ftandard to compare the others to ;.but by additional quanti^ 



of th 



folutions, they 



vigour, and perifhed. in the end,, as I fuppofe 



pt the laft, gradually loft th 



the excefs of fti- 



mu 



y 



There 



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