Volume 1

A treatise on the digestion of food / [George Fordyce].

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1791
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the digestion of food / [George Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P dheies | to the other. This we can fee in many of them by means of a microfcope, as I have myfelf often obferved. In thefe animals there is no reafon to fuppofe that there is any gaftric juice, -fuch as is found in the ftomachs we have already defcribed, nor bile, nor pancreatic juice. | I fuppofe that there are veflels rife from this cavity, and branch out to the feveral parts of the body of the animal, in the fame manner that the ] Noes pafs in vege~ tables. Thefe animals, therefore, are fomething between animals and vegetables. The food is digefted in the ftomach, and fo far they ' partake of an animal nature. It is abforbed, and carried to nourifh the various parts of the body, and in fo far it refembles vegeta- bles, which have no heart, and of courfe no circulation. It
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