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
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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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    iTientatioii in a strong solulloii of common salt; it possesses, therefore, a saline taste, vriih little aromatic flavor. To conclude our opinion of saline and aroma- tic condiment—-the whole of our seasonings may be said to consist of salt, vinegar, and aromatics, combined. They are taken in sm.all quantity, merely to give sapidity to the food ; they in- crease the appetite, and favor a proper quantity of aliment being taken, AVhere, again, they are taken immoderately, they cannot fail to weaken the stomach, to produce general irritation of the system, and to occasion acrimony of the Huids, u -OLE AOrXOUS. ^^ Olive Oil. ] The chief of the oleaginous condiments to be « noticed, is olite or saJlad oil. It is of a mild, bland nature, with little odour or taste. Wlien. used as a seasoning to raw vegetables, it checks ; their fermentation in the stomach, and thereby i prevents them from being too flatulent, ^here thus employed, la small quantities, it assists digestion; but where taken ifi large quantities, ; it cloys the appetite, and lays tlie foundation for bilious complaints. When used, it should be fresh, mild, land of a weetish taste. But in almost no case does it agree with weak stomachs, for in them it readily acquires rancidity, and; injures digestion. Butt erg