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150 The Floral King.
must be boiled with milk, or else it will purge, which
proves that it contains something not very welcome
for nature.
‘©2. When I tasted the flour for the bread at
Assesssor Hesselius (when I was in Orebro) I
noticed that some moss-flour had a nauseous taste
which long stayed on my tongue, and which was by
no means a good sign of any aliment, all the more
as the Creator has put taste and smell as chief
physicians for all men and animals. One must verily
proceed cant, when it concerns so many people’s
lives. One ought neither to throw to the winds a
means, which could sustain the lives of so many
people; with the like it is best not to be in haste.
One ought to rely in this, as in everything else, upon
experience. It would be worth while to gather this
in large quantities, and have much bread baked from
it, ask dogs, pigs and other animals, who have pure
taste, how they like it; allow poor people to get it
gratis, yet proceed slowly, so that one is enabled to
check it where it might harm.
“ The reindeer, who has got this of the Creator for
its principal food, possesses no gall-bladder, and fain
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