 | William Withering - 1801 - 472 sider
...to gum arabic. Hasselquist relates, that more than 100 men, during a siege, were kept alive for near two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken into the mouth sometimes, and suffered gradually to dissolve. The common people eat the fruit either... | |
 | 1819 - 426 sider
...recorded in history that more than one hundred men were kept alive during a siege, without any other food than a little of this gum taken sometimes into the mouth, and suffered gradually to dissolve. The garden cherry tree seldom exceeds twenty feet in height, but that sort called the black cherry often... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1823 - 722 sider
...Hasselquist in the account of his travels, relates that a hundred men, during a siege, were kept olive for nearly two months without any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken occasionally into the mouth and suffered gradually to dissolve. The wood of the prunut cerasus is in... | |
 | 1823 - 888 sider
...¡я equal to gum arable. It i* said, that more than ЮО men during a siege were kept alive fer near two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken into the mouth sometimes and suffered gradually to dissolve. The common people eat the fruit either... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1828 - 322 sider
...gum which exudes from the tree is equal to gum arabic ; and Haselquist relates, that more than two hundred men, during a siege, were kept alive for nearly...months, without any other sustenance than a little of the gum taken sometimes into the mouth, and suffered gradually to dissolve. Cherry wood is hard and... | |
 | 1830 - 612 sider
...species of Acacia] though differing in chemical qualities. E.) Hasselquist relates, that more than one hundred men, during a siege, were kept alive for nearly...any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken into the mouth sometimes, and suffered gradually to dissolve. (To produce an effect so surprising,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 636 sider
...arabic, and is considered very nutritive. Hasselquist informs us that, during a siege, more than 100 men were kept alive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum, which they occasionally took into their moutlis, and suffered gradually to dissolve. CHERRY-LAUREL.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1830 - 632 sider
...arabic, and is considered very nutritive. Hasselquist informs us that, during a siege, more than 100 men were kept alive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum, which they occasionally took into their mouths, and suffered gradually to dissolve. CHERRY-LAUREL.... | |
 | 1830 - 614 sider
...qualities. E-) Hasselquist relates, that more than one hundred men, during a siege, were kept ilive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken into It* muuth sometimes, aud suffered gradually to dissolve. (To produce an effect so surprising,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1830 - 636 sider
...arabic, and is considered very nutntive. Hasselquist informs us that, during a siege, more than 100 men were kept alive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a Huir of this gum, which they occasionally took into their moutlis, and suffered gradually 'to dissolve.... | |
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that more than one hundred men, during a siege, were kept alive for nearly two months, without any other sustenance than a little of this gum taken sometimes into the mouth, and suffered gradually to dissolve. 
