D1G 
The following is the rcfult of the analyfis : 
Water - + 93:3 
Veyctable and animal remains = - 47.0 
Bile - - 09 
‘ os - 09 
Peel ‘extraive matter - - 2.7 
S alts - o 2 
Shiny nntee, enaating Ne efin of bile, pe- 
enliar animal alae and iiolable re- 
fidue - - 14.0 
1C0.0 
The falts were carbonate of foda, muriate of foda, phof.- 
pe ae iime, fuiphate of foda, and ammoniaco-phofphate o 
mag 
Having thus concluded our account of the digeftive pro- 
cefs, we fhall clofe the prefent article with a fingle refnark, 
which flows naturally from the preceding flatements. The 
converfion of our food isto tke nutritive fluid by which the 
rowth of our body is-effcGted, a 
are fupplied, is an extremely complicated fu ; 
ent on the right performance of feveral fecretions, and the 
hardly any individual can be faid to purfue a ftri@lly healthy 
lan. When any one part of this feries of organs and func- 
any of the caufes now alluded to; 
kind occurs in either of 
to the obfervation both of the phyfician and furgeon ; 
the important praétical confeqnences that may be drawn 
from thefe premifes, are too obvious to ef{cape the notice of 
To follow their explanation any far- 
gilt and Nae er 
om. 6 & 7. erg and 
edition of the once. by Leveling. Dumas Principes 
de oe tom, hie icherand ener Elemens de 
Phyfiologie, tom. . mmering de 
Soe p- Human. Fabrica, 
tom. 6. Fordyce on Digettion. 
6 
eee on the An imal 
NIG 
Economy. Thomfon’s Chemiftry, vol. 5. 
triculus Humarus Anatomicé & Phe ficlogice Confideratus. 
Regiom. 1788. Spallanzani Differtationi di Fifica Aui- 
mal et Vegetabile, Modena. wee French tranflation of 
it by Senebier, Geneva. 1783. Englith Reg with Dr. 
Stevens’s Experiments. Veratti in 1 Comm non. tom. 
6. G. I. Hildebrandt Gefchichte der unre} snigheien im 
edarmen. 3 ie e. Braun ee 
malization et Affimilas 
Mctzger Vens 
magen und 
1790. 8. Halié Theorie de P 
tion. a s Praétical cae a the Materia Medica 
& Alimentaria. 
Dicesriow of Birds, in Comparative Anatomy. See 
i of Bi 
Dic eee in Che mifiry, is a long continued maceration 
of any fubftance in any lolvent liquid, at a temperature 
kept fteadily above the natural heat of the atmofphere. It 
differs from fimple maceration only in the temperature ufed. 
Dicestion, in Surgery, a eee a difpofition in abe 
{ceffes to ripen and come to {uppurati 
Tumours, arifing on the parotides of chi ie are of eafy 
digeftion : they ripen in a little time. Dio 
DIGESTIVE Facurry. The sect philofophers 
admitted a digeftive faculty, or quality, in the human body ; 
as not knowing how otherwife to account for the aé& of 
digeftion. 
alfo ufed, in eles oan fuch are as 
{tre engt then and a the tone of the ach, and affift in 
bee clafs coi all Gomatiss 
he digeftion of foo 
and ftrengtheners, or corroborants. 
stive Remedies, in a, are thofe ene 
G 
which the older furgeons confidered a 
promote fuppuration in wounds 
Suppuration.) Whatever has a tendency to excite the 
healthy a€tion of the arteries in wounds, may produce a 
fecretion of pus, and in this fenfe, may pn not improperly be 
called a digeftive remedy. lunguents, containing turpen- 
tine, rofin, aloes, en balfamic fubftances, poffefs this quality : 
ut the common yellow bafilicum dae ies xintment are the 
moft SS now in ufe 
GE 
8 being efficaciou 
perfely tight, fo as to confine 
f pour from the inclofed liquid, and thereby ‘enable it t 
ce a degree of heat much higher than its natural ealine 
oin 
. This veffel was at firft contrived by Basie in the follow. 
ing way : A cylindrical veffel is made, about a foot high, 
and {fix inches in diamete:, of caft-iron, or brafs, an iach 
thick, and turned very {mooth on the infide. At the upper 
end of the cylinder is a large opening of an oval form. A. 
plate is then made of the fame thickneds as the cylinder, 
and of an oval form, h but a lf an 
tended to be heated, the plate is introduced into the cylin- 
der (which the oval form of the aperture allows of) and is 
turned in fuch a manner, that when it is pulled, the veffel is 
clofely fhut up from the infide. The projeGting - is 
then thrutt throngh a hole made in the middle of a very 
ftrong bolt attached to the veffel, and, by means of the ae 
he c 
of the digeftor, and ode. “of aie the cover, ~ 
