Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician.

  • Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    ]1 usually j)roduced, consists in the power of bad habits to derange the actions of the di- gestive viscera, and to irritate and debilitate the nervous system. It is then that various diseases will arise, even in the absence of specific pestilence, according to the here- ditary tendencies of different constitutions, as soon as any exciting cause be brought into action. It is proposed in the sequel to point out what rules of diet are most con- ductive to health ; in order that those who have weak and irritable constitutions may avail themselves of them : at the same time the most healthy may adopt them with additional advantage and security, § 2. Rule 1.—Of the Quantity of Food. The first rule of health is that which ]u c- scribes moderation in diet. It is essential that the patient guard against eating more than the animal system requires for its daily support: the surpltis of food docs not well digest, but generally remains imperfectly acted on by the juices of the stomach and bowels, and becomes a source of irritation. In other cases, where the digestion is very powerful, too much food acts injuriously in another way^, by overloading the system, and thereby aggravating all the i)redispositions to disease, and often leading to actions of the ])lood vessels, so violent, as to occasion