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Excerpt from A Dissertation on Vegetable Chemistry: Containing a Summary of the Principal Facts of the Science, With a Series of Researches on the Proximate Principles of Vegetables
Yet Organic Chemistry is not without importance nor desti tute of fascination. It presents a wide and brilliant field for philosophical research, serves as a key to many physiological arcana, enables the physician to prescribe his remedy with more efficacy and less liability to failure, and derives no in considerable degree of importance from the re?ection, that the object of our study is one which confers on animals the bless ing of life, by affording us every species of nutriment, and in all probability furnishing our atmosphere with its exclusive source of oxygen.
This harmonious dependence of animals on vegetables and vice versa, is worthy of observation. They exhale oxygen, a ?uid deleterious to vegetables; we inhale it, 'as a stimulant to vitality they inspire carbonic acid as an aliment, we expire it as a poison. We sustain life by consuming substances, which they reject as super?uous, or diseased they ?ourish best in the excrementitious matter of animals. Thus nature, infinitely admirable in all her operations, has by this sublime harmony, blended the two kingdoms so intimately together, that the absence of the one would infer the consequent de struction of the other.
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