An essay concerning the nature of aliments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. In which the different effects, advantages, and disadvantages of animal and vegetable diet, are explain'd / [John Arbuthnot].

  • John Arbuthnot
Date:
1735
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Credit: An essay concerning the nature of aliments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. In which the different effects, advantages, and disadvantages of animal and vegetable diet, are explain'd / [John Arbuthnot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3^ ^/In Essay cancer funs' o tidn, the Animal that has that Or¬ gan faulty, can never be duly nou- rifil’d, nor have the Vital Juices, (which are all deriv’d from the Blood) in a good State; and this is true^ un- derftanding the Lungs only as an In- ftrument of Digeftion, and abftradt- ing from an acrid and purulent Mat¬ ter, that mixeth with the Blood in fuch as have their Lungs ulcerated; therefore fuch as have a faulty Circu¬ lation through the Lungs, ought to eat very little at a time, becaule the Increafe of the quantity of frefii Chyle mufl make that Circulation Hill more uneafy; which indeed is the Caleof Confumptive and fome Afthmatick Perfons, and accounts for the Symp¬ toms they are troubled with after eat- ins : Therefore the great Rule of Diet for Confumptive People, and upon which the whole Cure depends, is taking their Aliment in fmall quantities at a time. It happens very often unfortunately for Afthmatick Per- I
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