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 mild, &c. uſeful or hurtful according to the different conſtitutions to which they are applied. There may be a ſtronger broth made of vegetables than any gravy ſoup."—p. 219.—"I know more than one inſtance of inſanible paſſions being ſubdued by a vegetable diet."—p. 226.—"Plethoric conſtitutions are ſubject to fall into this alkaline ſtate of the fluids, which is more dangerous than that which proceeds from acidity."—p. 292.

But the late ingenious Dr. Elliot, in his elements of natural philoſophy, as connected with medicine, has given us, I think, a moſt inconteſtable proof, that animals are not the proper food of man. In ſpeaking of fermentation, he expreſſes himſelf as follows: