Institutes of health : essays on constitutional peculiarities, sudden impressions, bathing, animal food, London porter and ale, digestion, dropsy and liver complaints / by John Roberton.

  • Roberton, John, 1776-1820/21.
Date:
1817
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    1 CONSTITUTIONAL PECULIARITIES. Every particular mode of reasoning, and every particular application, made to the human body, either for the preservation of health, or for the removal of disease, must be greatly regulated by the existence of certain constitutional peculiarities, which prevent the possibility of uniform rules and universal applications being made to every descrip- tion or variety of human beings. Indeed, a pru- dent and judicious medical attendant will ascertain every circumstance in his power connected with these peculiarities, previous to his recommendation of any means he may judge proper for the con- tinuance of the comforts of health, or for the restoration of that health of which the individual is deprived. Thus the seemingly same sort of diseases, of the various descriptions of human beings, to be met with in the world, from the naked savage to the luxurious citizen, are characterized by certain individualities, I would call them, which, B