AN HERBIV^OROUS MAN. 
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way of injection, because the act of deglutition is with difficulty 
performed by a drunken animal or man, and sometimes cannot 
be performed at all, and certainly not without hazard of the 
ammonia enterins: the trachea and the bronchi. It is deservino- 
of consideration, how far it may be advisable to inject the 
ammonia into the veins of a drunken person. 
Journal. 
AN HERBIVOROUS MAN. 
Anthony Julian, a native of the department of Var, fell 
suddenly into such an extreme state of poverty during his 
youth, that he was compelled to eat the leaves of plants, through 
lack of bread. That which was at first a forced and painful 
addition to his food, soon became an object of choice; and 
although, at the expiration of a few months, his situation was 
altered, he continued to live on raw vegetables, with the excep¬ 
tion of three or four ounces of bread, and a little wine, and 
which he could without any sacrifice forego. His stomach 
accommodated itself without difficulty to this singular regimen ; 
the digestion of his new food was perfect, and his health and 
strength increased in a wonderful manner. 
The following is a catalogue of the plants that ordinarily 
composed his repast: The leaves of the common burnet, clover, 
haresfoot, sow-thistle, hawkw^eed, winter savory, fennel, grounsel, 
fumitory, sage, pellitory, wheat, oat, bent, clove, chamomile, 
Roman wormwood, parsley, bean, pilewort, garden patience, 
wild radish, teasel, rib-wort, plantain, white mustard, dandelion, 
cabbage, coleseed, daisy, lucern, thistle, bindweed, costmarv, 
thyme, pine, myrtle, ivy, rock-rose, bramble, wild madder, red 
rose, lemon, oak, olive, reed-grass, laurel, rosemary, jasmine, &c. 
Some herbs were much more grateful to him than others, and 
he used to distribute them into three lists. Those which he ate 
with the greatest relish, were the orchides, sow-thistle, pimper¬ 
nel, lucern, vine-leaves, potato-leaves, mulbeny-leaves, rose- 
leaves, the buds of the chestnut, burdock, thistles. See. 
The following he ate with appetite, but not with so much 
pleasure: The leaves of the wild carrot, turnip, fennel, cabbage, 
common briar, beet, pellitory, and the tender blades of the 
cereales. 
The following he could eat, but he did not much relish them : 
the leaves of the pine, rock-rose, white-oak, common oak, rose¬ 
mary, the olive tree, and the box. 
