An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cafe with good wheaten-bread ; which is fo juftly term’d the ftaf of life, as being fufficient for’ all its purpofees. ‘ Some,” fays doctor Cheyne, _ have affirm’d, that nothine but folid food can nourifh, and that broths, foups, milk, and fuch aqueous food, weaken, walte and liquefy, the conftitution and habit: but thefe are poor philo- fophers; for, in truth and realty, no food can nourifh, z ¢. increafe the quantity of flefh and blood, [and] fupply the wafte of action and liveing, and the necesfary fecretions, but what is liquid and extremely thin, and whey wil nourifh more quickly than dcef, though not fo - durerablely, as is known to every one who under- ftands the animal ceconomy. Let one fwallow down what he wil, that part of it which nourifh’d mutt be thiner and more Aluid than the whey of affes milk; nay, posfiblely, as thin as yapour, elfe it can never enter the lacteals (the onely pasfageés by which nourifhment, or new ‘chyle can get into the blood), or, at leaft, pafs through fome of the extremely minute canals, much lefs than a hair: the reft onely {cratches [or tickles] the palate, and the organs of fenfe, | and poifons the world afterward.”* * Method of cure, p. 226.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
