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n. - Solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth.

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  • Does the palate exert some peculiar action on the ingesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor?
  • But in proportion to the ingesta he should have evacuations twice or thrice in the day, once at night and more copiously in the morning, as is customary with a person in...
  • It is also certain that those who indulge in excesses find their vigor more speedily restored by the alternate use of chocolate and coffee than by any other ingesta; and...
  • But let it be said that this does not take place in half an hour, but in an hour, or even in a day; any way, it is still manifest that more blood passes through the heart in...
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