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Orgza

barley water or gum arabic & water with sugar.
Now all these are safe in common cases but
in violent ones - I have known fever kept up
in pleuring by giving too much drink-
Barley water contains a good deal of nutriment
Pearl Barley is not so good as the common
& the process of preperation by no means improves
it , but on the contrary it is more likely to
be subjicated to chymical changes from which
the husk protects - Orgza. Rice. - This differs
from all the others in containing less ascescent
matter. It is very nutritive & supports the people
of the most popolous empires. In Syspepsia.
Dysentary & Diarrheea it is the best diet we can
employ when well boiled. It has been supposed
to possess astringent qualities, but for this
there is little foundation. Dr Percival exposed
the above articles to the process of fermentation
and found that all went into the ascescent