ke no sustenance by the throat, or digest none by the stomach,
might long continue to support him; and perhaps other nutriment, as milk or
mucilage, might be this way introduced into the system, but we have not yet
sufficient experiments on this subject. See Sect. XXXII. 4. and Class I. 2.
3. 25. and Sup. I. 14. 2.

VII. Various kinds of condiments, or sauces, have been taken along with
vegetable or animal food, and have been thought by some to strengthen the
process of digestion and consequent process of nutrition. Of these wine, or
other fermented liquors, vinegar, salt, spices, and mustard, have been in
most common use, and I believe to the injury of thousands. As the stomach
by their violent stimulus at length loses its natural degree of
irritability, and indigestion is the consequence; which is attended with
flatulency and emaciation. Where any of these have been taken so long as to
induce a habit, they must either be continued, but not increased; or the
use of them should be gradually and cautiously diminished or discontinued,
as directed in Sect. XII. 7. 8.

III. CATALOGUE OF THE NUTRIENTIA.

I. 1. Venison, beef, mutton, hare, goose, duck, woodcock, snipe,
moor-game.

2. Oysters, lobsters, crabs, shrimps, mushrooms, eel, tench, barbolt,
smelt, turbot, sole, turtle.

3. Lamb, veal, sucking-pig.

4. Turkey, partridge, pheasant, fowl, eggs.

5. Pike, perch, gudgeon, trout, grayling.

II. Milk, cream, butter, buttermilk, whey, cheese.

III. Wheat, barley, oats, peas, potatoes, turnips, carrots, cabbage,
asparagus, artichoke, spinach, beet, apple, pear, plum, apricot,
nectarine, peach, strawberry, grape, orange, melon, cucumber, dried
figs, raisins, sugar, honey. With a great variety of other roots,
seeds, leaves, and fruits.

IV. Water, river-water, spring-water, calcareous earth.

V. Air, oxygene, azote, carbonic acid gas.

VI. Nutritive baths and clysters, transfusion of blood.

VII. Condiments.

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ART. II.

INCITANTIA.

I. 1. Those things, which increase the exertions of all the irritative
motions, are termed incitantia. As alcohol, or the spirituous part of
fermented liquors, opium, and many drugs, which are still esteemed poisons,
their proper doses not being ascertained. To these should be added the
exhilarating passions of the mind, as joy, love: and externally the
application of he