A practical treatise on diet, and on the most salutary and agreeable means of supporting life and health, by aliment and regimen : adapted to the various circumstances of age, constitution, and climate; and including the application of modern chemistry to the culinary preparation of food / by William Nisbet.
- Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
- Date:
- 1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on diet, and on the most salutary and agreeable means of supporting life and health, by aliment and regimen : adapted to the various circumstances of age, constitution, and climate; and including the application of modern chemistry to the culinary preparation of food / by William Nisbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![ing that readers erery person now, more or ]es5, a prey to anxiety respecting his health-—The treatment of his own complaints, forms, therefore, the leading fitudy of the day—The fashionable pursuit of chemistry aids this increasing foible, and is constantly giving it additional strength- Popular works of medicine form a fivourite part of modern study, and in the choice of this ^^tudy, no part of it surely deserves so much atten tionas the subject of diet, and the various articles connected with it, necessary to the support of life. When we consider that in the catalogue of diseases, at least two thirds are of a chronic na- ture, or the effect of our own irregularities ; the importance of this part stands in a conspicuous view—By the very instinct of self-preservation, we are more immediately excited to its investiga- tion, and by a knowledge of it, seasonablv applied, we shall often have it in our pov/er to prevent dis- ease—Even where <lisease has actually occurred, we shall be enabled by this knowledge to check its progress, and at the same time to assist the efforts of medicine. But while the principles of the animal ecouomy being once rendered familiar and plain, is the only way to root out those false maxims and prejudices which education and ignorance in- troduce, there are certain limits beyond which this knowledge should not be carried—An acquaint- ance indeed with the subject of diet, cannot fail to be attended with the best consequences; but when this familiar or domestic kind of knowledge, is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2130063x_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
