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and very nutritious, as turnips, carrots: theſe have a fattening quality, which they manifeſt in feeding of cattle."—Page 63 and 64.
"Animal ſubſtances differ from vegetables in two things. Firſt, In that being reduced to aſhes, they are perfectly inſipid; all animal ſalts being volatile, fly off with great heat. Secondly, In that there is no ſincere acid in any animal juice. From the two fore-mentioned differences of vegetable and animal ſubſtances, it follows, firſt, that all animal diet is alkaleſcent or anti-acid; ſecondly, that animal ſubſtance, containing no fixt ſalt, want the aſſiſtance of thoſe for digeſtion which preſerve them both within and without the body fromputre-
