Elements of agriculture and vegetation / By George Fordyce, M. D. Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians; Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; and Reader on the Practice of Physic, in London. To which is added an appendix for the use of practical farmers.

  • George Fordyce
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1789
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Credit: Elements of agriculture and vegetation / By George Fordyce, M. D. Fellow Of The Royal College Of Physicians; Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; and Reader on the Practice of Physic, in London. To which is added an appendix for the use of practical farmers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 204 ] be mixed with other fubflances, was in itfelf always the fame in all its properties, and that this matter was by a new operation induced by the adtion of the duodenum, and the fluids it met with there, to have its elements again difunited, and reunited fo as to form the three eflential parts of the chyle, which, therefore, could not be influenced in the fmallefl degree by the food, and that thefe three eflential parts of the chyle were always the fame, and therefore when con- verted into the blood, the blood a fortiori could not be in the fmallefl degree in- fluenced by the food. And moreover, that provided a fufficient quantity of food was employed, and the organs of digeftion were fufflciently powerful in their adtion, and the fluids applied were properly added, a fufficient quantity of blood would be foimed, and that too large a quantity of food did not produce too large a quantity of blood. 1 t F I N I 'S.