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Sec t/X VIII. 1.4 



LEAVES AND WOOD. 



51^ 



thus deftroying their acrimony 



d decreafing the tenacity of th 



fibres by 

 doon, cinara 



the leaves of celery, apium 



and car 



d of endive, cichorium end 



-A feclafion from the fun's light and from air has an effed 



fome 



dering them pale 



d weak, as 



what fimilar on animal bodies, render.ng hem pa.e anu wc... . 

 may be fcen in the etiolated young ladies of fome board,ng fchools 



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and in thofe who pafs their waking h 

 during more than half the nig^^^ 



d parlo 



4 



Other vegetable foliage, h 



bee 



brought into very extenfive 



fe infufed in hot water for its agreeable aromatic or bitterilh fl 



vour. 



thofe of foreign tea, th 



d of the afh, fraxinus, of 



fland the leaves of which were coUeded, before they 



became 



panded 



and fold after being dried for 



the inferior kind of Boh 



fo^reat quantity as to occafion an aft of parliament to be paff 



ed about forty years ago to lay a fi 



iiy one, who fhould h 



ed more than fifty pounds of afh leaves, which w.ere not th 



produce of h 



The leaves of many other of our domeft 



tables, as of mint, balm, and fage, mentha, meliffa, falvia, h 

 been infufed in hot water as an agreeable diluent beverage both 



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in 



health 



d ficknefs 



th 



ifl. of which, the fage, pofllffes a very 

 nd if the infufion be poured from the 



pleafant aromatic flavour ; : , , . n 



leaves, before it has acquired too much of the bitter flavour, it is very 



grateful to the palat 

 from high anti^quity 



(tomach 



dh 



been 



th 



prefent times, wh 



fteemed falub 



the line of Ho 



race : 



Cur moriatur homo, cui falvia. crefcit in horto 



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All thefe infufions become nutritive, when drank with cream and 



fuear 



to 



, and have cert 

 of this ifland by 



ly contributed to 



health of the inhabi 



c: 



quors 



eafing the potation of fermented or fp 



ore frequently mixing 



d to their morality by 



the- 



ladies and gentlemen in the fame fociety 



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