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the effedt of a depravated nutrition. After 
the work of Dodtor Milman, no one will 
have the hardinefs to affert, that this ac¬ 
cident, as well as all the others which 
accompany the fcurvy, are owing to an 
acrimony in the blood. It has been de- 
monftrated by ingenious phyficians, that 
in this affedtion there exifts an atony in 
all the fyidem, and that this is the caufe of 
the great derangement in the animal eco¬ 
nomy obfervable under thefe circumftances. 
It is only by this atony or defedt of nervous 
power, that the veflels of the teeth pre¬ 
pare a fluid which has the property of de- 
flroying their organization. 
It would be fuperfluous to employ more 
time on the influence of the nerves in 
nutrition, as it appears fo very obvious 
and plain. 
If it were now to be a iked by what 
means the nerves adt, \ye could only re¬ 
peat 
