What shall I drink? / by Reuben D. Mussey.

  • Reuben Dimond Mussey
Date:
[1863?]
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Credit: What shall I drink? / by Reuben D. Mussey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    WHAT SHALL I DRINK? This question, so commonly put by the dyspeptic to his physician, often results in far-reaching consequences. A distinguished practitioner confined his patients to coffee, and a bit of meat, for breakfast; and to steak, with brandy and water, for dinner. Nothing more was to be eaten till the breakfast of the next morning. The dys- pepsia was relieved by the long abstinence from food, but the dinner's drink made many drunkards. Multitudes of physicians at the present time prescribe distilled or fermented liq- uors for dyspepsia, to be taken indefinitely, without the suggestion that, from prolonged
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