A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The fhort fltetch which I have given of the form of the digeftive organs in animals not of the human fpeeies, is only of fuch parts as are neceffary for the purpofe of the following argument. Whoever wifhes to be more particularly informed on this fub- jec~t, mufl wait for my friend Mr. Hunter's publifhing thofe obfervations, which long and unwearied labour, joined with what fo rarely happens, that it will exceed the belief of pofterity, a clear and accurate determi- nation of the points which are to be illuf- trated by experiment and obfervation, and a power of inventing and profecuting fuch experiments and fuch obfervations as tend to no frivolous purpofe, but to the true evi- dence and illuftration of the proportions brought forward, of which there are none that are not important. I come now to confider the fubftances ipplied to the food during the digeftion. It is unfortunate when it occurs in treat- ing on any fubjett, that there is a neceffity of