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Artificial Digestion
A London bowels should be kept regular by the occa physician, Dr. Marcet, has announced a prosional use of some mild aperient. cess by which natural digestion is imitated by 5637. Carminatives. Medicines that artificial means, and solid food may thereby allay flatulency and spasmodic pains. Among are aniseed, caragrains muriatic acid having a specific gravity wayseed, cardamoms, cassia, cinnamon, ginof 1.1496; 15 grains of pepsin-the organic ger, peppermint and the peppers; including principle procured from the stomach of a pig ardent spirits and most aromatic essences and or other animal. Diluted in a pint of water and added to a pound of raw meat, the whole is allowed to simmer over a water-bath at about the temperature of the body, 93° Fahr.
When the meat is by this means sufficiently broken up, it is strained, and the acid neutraltinctures. often arises from a mother's impure milk;