Page:The Cry of Nature.pdf/114

 this; it turns eaſily to acid, and far from ſhewing the leaſt appearance of volatile alkali, as animal ſubſtances do, it gives, like plants, the eſſence of neutral falt. Women eat bread and milk, and vegetables. The female of the cat and canine ſpecies do the ſame; even wolves browze upon the field. Here we have vegetable juices for their milk."

"If we conſider the quantity, every body knows that farinaceous ſubſtances make more blood than animal; they muſt therefore make more milk. Can it be that a vegetable diet being confeſſedly better for the infant, an animal regimen ſhould be better for the nurſe? There is a contradiction in that." "One