. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . t of the intestine into the water, and the water inwardlymingling with the milk. This process goes on till the fluid within andwithout the intestine becomes one and the same. This is a familiarillustration of the principle in question. Another illustration is this: Pure water is placed in a commontumbler, or a glass tube an inch or two in diameter, as b in fig. 244. Asmaller tube, say half an inch in
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . t of the intestine into the water, and the water inwardlymingling with the milk. This process goes on till the fluid within andwithout the intestine becomes one and the same. This is a familiarillustration of the principle in question. Another illustration is this: Pure water is placed in a commontumbler, or a glass tube an inch or two in diameter, as b in fig. 244. Asmaller tube, say half an inch in diameter, as a in the cut, has one ofits ends closed tightly with a piece of bladder, and is nearly filledwith brine. The bladder end of this tube is then immersed, at an angleof about forty-five degrees, in the water of a larger tube or tumbler. Ina short time the interchange of liquids commence, following the direc-tion of the arrows as seen in the cut, and this interchange continuesuntil the liquid in both tubes becomes the same. Still another illustration is this: If the small tube containing thebrine be supported vertically, as in fig. 245, and its bladder end im- Fig. 244. Fig.
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