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inſtance, cheeſe, eggs, milk, meats, and vegetable food, though duly prepared, and juſtly proportioned in quantity, may chance to lie heavy on the ſtomach, or beget wind in the alimentary paſſages of ſome perſons (and yet drinking of water will always remedy this inconveniency:) But theſe neither having their parts ſtrongly united, nor abounding in ſharp urinous ſalts, when they become ſufficiently diluted with a watry menſtruum, or diſſolved into their component parts, and their parts being ſtill ſmaller than the ſmalleſt veſſels, and their union conſtantly leſs than the force of the concoctive powers, in perſons who have any remaining fund of life in them, will thereby yield a ſweet, thin, and eaſily circulating chyle, in the after concoctions be-come