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.
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![solid parts In the same proportion, as tlic sanguine in that of the fluids. The nervous system is sensi- ble with little irritability. Thus we find a strong steady character the effect of this habit, disposed to contemplation, pliable, but liable to be op- pressed with sadness and fear. This temperament, though conspicuous atall times, is more exquisitely formed as life advances, and its diseases are those of the Melancholic^ IJypochondriacal, Bilious, and Ilemorrhoidcil kinds. From these two temperaments, distinctly mark ed^ all the others flow as intermediate gradations. The Choleric. The first of the intermediate ones to be noticed Is the CholericyW-Kicli is a modification taking from the Sanguine, its mobility and irritabilitv, and from the Melancholic its strength and density. Thus the body is soft and plia])le,without being dry and meagre ; the skin has a yellowish cast. The hai]^ inclines to redness. The eyes are dark and of a moderate size, expressing penetration,and at times a degree of wildness. Rapidity and quickness are displayed both in the state of tlie pulse, and the different actions of the body. The disposition of mind corresponds to that of the frame. I'here ap- pears a vigour of enterprize, an ardency of under- taking, and the temper seems alike fitted for labori- ous exertion, and for supporting the influence of conimaad. t 6 The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2130063x_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
