Causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared.

  • Arthur Leared
Date:
1870
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Credit: Causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    urgent, and, after middle age, are diminished still more. The practical inference is, that the man of advanced years does not require, and should not take, as much food as the young man. How this was recognised by a profound thinker, may be read in Cicero's Essay on Old Age. He expresses himself gratefully, that while advancing years increased his desire for conversation, they had diminished the necessity for food and drink.* But such reflections are seldom made, and still more rarely acted upon. At all stages of adult life, but particularly during its decline, the appetite is over-stimu- lated by condiments, and tempted to excess by culinary refinements.f Dyspepsia is not the worst result of this. Gout, and still more serious maladies connected with an impure state of blood, closely follow. * Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, qiije mihi ser- monis aviditatem auxit, potionis et cibi suatulit. t Ahernethy, in his peculiar style, insists that civUized man eats and drinks an enormous deal more than is necessary for his wants or welfare. He fills his stomach and bowels with food which actually putrefies in those organs.
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