The nurse's guide, and family assistant : containing friendly cautions to those who are in health : with ample directions to nurses and others who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Robert Wallace, 1719 or 1720-
Date:
1819
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Credit: The nurse's guide, and family assistant : containing friendly cautions to those who are in health : with ample directions to nurses and others who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    g4j ^if ^^^^ S^^ '^'^ Sick. The prevailing fashion at present is, to make one repast consist of a varie- ty of dishes. This mode, whilst ob- served with moderation, is laudable, for such a meal will digest sooner, and with less uneasiness to the sto- mach, than one consisting only of one dish; even supposing the quantity eat- en is not quite so much as that of the former. And moreover, there is reason to believe (as I was long ago informed by an ingenious friend,* who has made many experiments up- on living animals relative to digestion) that the chyle is always the same, let the substance from which it is pro- duced, be either vegetable, or animal; that when it appears to be in any res- pect different, it is owing to its bein,^ mixt with such substances as are in- * Mr. John Hunter,