. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 4) . was chiefly consulted ; but, in mo-dern times, the quacks


. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 4) . was chiefly consulted ; but, in mo-dern times, the quacks have usurp-ed that criterion; and physiciansof great practice seem to pay par-ticular attention to the pulse ; astheir time is equally short and va-luable. See Physician. PULSE, in botany, a term ap-plicable to all grains or seeds thatare gathered with the hand ; beingopposed to corn, &c. which arereaped or mown. It is more par-ticularly employed to denote theseed of leguminous vegetables, suchas pease,beans, lentils, vetches, &c.;respecting the culture of which,the reader will find an accountunder those respective articles. All pulse contains a large por-tion of fixed air, and also of crudeindigestable particles : if eaten toofrequently, or in immoderate quan-tities, leguminous vegetables areapt to produce flatulency and cos-liveness : for, as such earthy par-ticles cannot assimilate with thehuman fluids, they often remainin the body indigested, for a con-siderable length of time, to theconsequent injury of the alimen-. ///w//rtr/t /At)///? Swatm* PUM PUM 349 tary canal. Hence, persons of re-laxed habits ought to eat them spa-ringly, and, in preparing fieasc-*ok/i, to boil the pease undivided ;by which simple expedient theymay avoid the oppression of thebowels, and the heart-burn ; whichare generally occasioned, whenthese pulse are split, and deprivedof their husks. PUMICE-STONE, a hard fos-sil, that is frequently ejected fromvolcanoes : it is very light, withnumerous pores,


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