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much alcaline Salt, it putrifies, turns acrid, 
fetid, ferous, and often fanious, fmells like 
putrified Urine ; but the Animals which 
feed on Vegetables, give a Milk which 
throws up a Cream, coagulates, fours, and 
plainly difcovers its Acidity. 
The beft Milk for healthy Nourifhment, 
is that which is newly drawn from a middle- 
aged Animal, healthy, and fed with good 
Food; that which is white, neither too 
thick nor thin, has a good Smell, without 
any harSh, brackifh, bitter or iharp Tafte. 
Milk that has thofe Properties, abounds 
with oily balfamick Parts, which make it 
very foftening and fit for good Nourifhment, 
without much Labour or Toil to the diges- 
tive Faculty, being a Chyle already prepa- 
red upon the Stomach of another Animal, 
having pafs’d the Ladteals, been mixed with 
the Blood, undergone Several Digeftions and 
Secretions, freed from moft of its grofs ex- 
crementitious Parts, and fitted to pafs the 
like animal Tubes it had before gone thro*. 
It is efpecially fuited to thin, wafted, and 
lean Bodies, whoSe Juices are thin and acrid, 
or their Solids too ftiff and elaftic ; for its 
Abundance of Oil lubricates the Veflels, di- 
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