A practical treatise on the management and diseases of children / by R.T. Evanson and H. Maunsell.

  • Evanson, Richard Tonson, 1799?-
Date:
1847
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    call to their recollection the difference between the milk afforded by a cow kept alive by the weeds and scanty vegetation of a neglected common,, and one fed upon the riches of a pasture which has ex- perienced the transforming power of cultivation; let them recollect that the Avheat, of which their so-called natural diet is composed^ is itself the result of a long course of cultivation, and a full employ- ment of all the resources of the compHcated art of agriculture. '^The potato, says Dr. Paris, among many other examples,—whose introduction has added so many millions to our population, derives its origin from a small and bitter root which grows wild in Chih, and at Monte Yideo.^ The science of Dietetics is, in truth, an uncertain one; any facts that we know respecting it, being liable to be influenced by many varying conditions, all of which should be taken into the considera- tion of every individual case; and after all, no theory should be allowed the shghtest weight in a particular instance in which it may be contradicted by experience. If an article of food, in favour of whose wholesomeness we have universal testhnony, should disagree with a certain individual, its use with tliat person nmst not be insisted upon.f VIII.—CLEANLINESS. The importance of the excretion from the skin is universally ack- nowledged, and is sufficiently proved by the amount of the daily perspiration, which was estimated by Lavoisier and Seguin at an average of lib. 14oz. in the adult.^ The discharge being natural and essential for the preservation of health, the necessity of remov- ing from the body of the child, any obstructions to it which might be offered by the adhesion of extraneous matters, must be sufficiently obvious. The beneficial action of the physical agents upon the sys- * Op. citat. t Some very unexpected facts and opinions with regard to the nutritive properties of various kinds of food have been lately brought forward in the Report of the Commission on Gelatine, to the Academy of Sciences of Paris, A translation of this rcniarkablc document, in the preparation of wliich, M.M. Thenard, Dumas, Flourens, Serres, Breschet. and Magendie, were engaged during ten years, will be found in iha Medical Press, vol. vi. p. 129, and will well repay tlie trouble of perusal. [Note to 4th Edition.] X Lavoisier's Traite Elcmcntaire de Chimie.
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