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come benign and ſalutary, and afford no materials for chronical diſtempers; and the wind thence generated, not being pointed and armed with ſuch ſharp ſalts as thoſe of fleſh-meats, or the corroſive juices of ſpiritous liquors, will be as innocent and safe as the element we breathe in, p. 120.
"Thoſe children, ſays Rouſſeau, whoſe nurſės live upon animal food, are more ſubject to worms and the cholic than thoſe whoſe nurſes feed upon vegetables. This ſays he; is by no means ſurpriſing, ſince animal ſubſtance in putrefaction ſwarms with vermin; which a vegetable ſubſtance does not. Milk, though elaborated in the body of an animal, is nevertheleſs a vegetable ſubſtance. Its analyſis demonftratesthis;
