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grudge: Such vindictive temper, ſome phyſicians ſay, is occaſioned by their frequent feeding on camel's fleſh—that creature being moſt malicious and tenacious of anger; which account ſuggeſts a good reaſon‬ for a diſtinction of meats."—Vide Poc. Spec. p . 85.

The principles of natural bodies, according to the chymiſts, are water, earth, oil, ſalt, ſpirit.—Arbuthnot deſcribing the extreme tenuity or ſmallneſs of the lymphatic and capillary arteries, thence obſerves—"Hence one eaſily perceives the inconveniency of viſcidity which obſtructs, and acrimony that deſtroys the capillary veſſels.—Arbuthnot on Alim. p. 39.—"All animals are made immediately or mediatelyof