Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur.

  • Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
Date:
1786
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Credit: Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J [ 83 ] — #- this matter. Celfus would have their food be of a mixed nature, but of an hard kind. Many people approve of a dry and hard diet; others recommend the fleih of young animals, and bread twice baked, even cheefe and butter. No more drink is to be given according to Celfus than is juft fufficient to fupport life, and that is faid to be preferable which provokes urine. Will any drink given only in Inch quantities as to fupport life, be likely to provoke urine ? Will not food of a hard nature (even if drink be al¬ lowed ) opprefs the ftomach of a ftrong and heajthy man ? Has not hard meat, a tena¬ cious and unwholefome food, a vifcid kind of bread, been reckoned by authors among the caufes why poor people and their children are fo very fubjedl to the Dropfy ? But if thefe things are apt to opprefs the ftrength of a ftout man, how pernicious muft they prove to one already a. valetudinarian, to one labouring under a Dropfy ! The blood of dropfical people is generally faid to be faulty in having a lentoror vifcidity in it; and yet cheefe and butter, both of them of a vifcid nature, and poflefting the worfe qualities for offending the ftomach, are the principal F 2 in