Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines; with observations on sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters to which is annexed, a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / From the 22d English ed., with considerable additions and notes.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1828
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Credit: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines; with observations on sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters to which is annexed, a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / From the 22d English ed., with considerable additions and notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    England must have her tea, and the children generally share it with her. As tea contains no nourishment, either for young -or old, there must of course be bread and butter to eat along with it. The quartern loaf will not go far among a family of hungry children, and if we add the cost of tea, sugar, butter, and milk, the expense of one meal will be more than would be sufficient to fill their bellies with wholesome food three times a-day. England is used to tea, without one hearty meal ever being made of it. The higher ranks use tea as a luxury, while the lower orders make a diet of it. I had lately occasion to see a striking instance of this in a family, that was represented to me as in distress for want of bread. I sent them a httle money, and was informed that they ran with it directly to the tea-shop. may not prove pernicious; but where there is a debilitated stomach and an irritability of fibre, it never fails to do much hurt. With many it has the effect to prevent sleep. Tea will induce a total change of constitution in the people of this country. Indeed, it has gone a great way towards effecting that evil already. A debility, and consequent irritability of fibre, are become so common, that not only women, but even men, are affected with them. That class of diseases, which, for want of a better name, we call nervius, has made almost a compiete conquest of the one sex, and is making hasty strides towards vanquishing the other. Did women know the train of diseases induced by debility, and how disagreeable these diseases render them to the other sex, they would shun tea as the most deadly poison. No man can love a woman eaten up with vapours, or washed down with diseases arising from relaxation. It is not tea taken as a beverage after a full meal, or in a crowded assembly, that I so much condemn, though I think its place. The mischief ~ecasioned by tea arises chiefly from its being substituted for solid food. This is so much the case at present, that, had I time to spare, ] think it could not be better employed than in writing against this destructive drug. BOILED GRAIN, Txovuen farinaceous substances, of one kind or another, make a necessary part of the food of man, yet there can be no reason why such substances should always assume the name and form of bread. Many of them are more wholesome, and not less agreeable, m other forms. Bread is often used merely to save the trouble of cookery; and, being portable, is the most convenient article of diet for carrying abroad. | boiled, though not in this country, than is made into bread; and that this mode of cookery is the most wholesome. Simple boiling precludes al! adulteration, and is an operation much less laborious aud artificial than baking. ’