Note 142 — PHARMACOLOGIA. ON THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINAL BODIES, AND ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS FOUNDED ON THEM.

Thus Sir H. Davy, in comparing the composition of the soluble products afforded by different crops from the same grass, found in every trial, the largest quantity of truly nutritive matter in the crop cut when the seed was ripe and the least bitter extractive, and saline matter; while in the autumnal crops these relations were found inverted. Elem. of Agricult. Chem.