Medical and physical memoirs, containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States / [Charles Caldwell].

  • Charles Caldwell
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical and physical memoirs, containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States / [Charles Caldwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C <52 ] tropical regimen. But such a regimen (as both nature and experience have long since taught us) consists not in animal, but chiefly in vegetable food ; not in Madeira and ardent spirits, but in light wines, malt liquors, lemon- • ade, and cider. Descended, as we are, from a British ancestry, and having kept up, at all times,, a close and extensive intercourse with the i mother country, it is not surprising that tVe • should have originally adopted and long re- • tained a variety of British customs. Nor is • there any point, in which this wrould more pro- • bably be the ease, than in our manner of: living. It is on this principle of imitation alone,. that we can account for our making use of: such a large proportion of animal food. For' both reason and nature discountenance the practice. It is surely time for us to relinquish these servile habits of imitation, and become r as independent at our private tables, as we • are in our public councils. It is time for us to begin to live, not in conformity to the cus- toms of a remote nation, dissimilar in its cir- cumstances, but in a manner adapted to the
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