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lives changes within his body into 

 a fubftance which has nothing de- 

 leterious in itfelf, but in one place 

 of its body a molt virulent poifon 

 is elaborated from it e The fame 

 juice which the root of a tree pumps 

 from the earth is changed into va^ 

 rious fruits, very different in tafte 

 and qualities, if different fort of 

 fruits are grafted upon it. An ani- 

 mal body becomes a manure for 

 plants by corruption ; it changes 

 thus in the fubftance of a vegetable; 

 this, being burnt, changes into 

 afhes ; which, by the action of the 

 fame fire, and by the addition of 

 fome fand and fome calx of lead, 

 changes into fine tranfparent glafs. 

 Thus what is now a part of our 

 body may become in a fhort time a 

 part of a pot or bottle, 



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