Volume 1

A rational discourse of the inward uses of water. Shewing its nature, choice, and agreeableness to the blood; its operation on the solids and fluids ... in what diseases restorative, and wherein prejudicial / [Thomas Short].

  • Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Date:
1725
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Credit: A rational discourse of the inward uses of water. Shewing its nature, choice, and agreeableness to the blood; its operation on the solids and fluids ... in what diseases restorative, and wherein prejudicial / [Thomas Short]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Time of drinking Water is neceffa- ry to be known: Half a Pint or more in a Morning, to Drinkers of Malt Liquors, will be very beneficial; for Malt Liquors having in them grofs Parts, cannot fully dilute all the Parts of the Food, but will leave the Dregs of Diet, in a thick Slime flicking to the Walls of the Sto¬ mach, which a Glafs of Water wafhes off, dif- folves, and carries thethiner Parts into the Lac- teals, and the groffer to the F&ces. A Glafs of Water after Breakfaft (provided Tea or Coffee was not drunk) is proper to fharpen the Appe¬ tite for Dinner. I fhould not advife fwallowing down large Quantities of any Liquor at Dinner: For the thinner Parts of the Aliments will foon be turned into Chyle, and fent off to the Guts; and the groffer, harder, or more tenaciousParts will remain ; and what is drunk with Dinner muft go out of the Stomach with the firft of the Chyle, and the whole Bufinefs of Dilution will remain for the Saliva: The propereft and healthieft Method then feems to be, to drink a fmall Draught after Dinner, and a larger Cup an Hour after, and a Glafs at Four of the Clock. I can by no means learn the Advantage, but great Injury, of pouring frequent and large Draughts of Liquor at Dinner into the Stomach, as it were a Barrel; for few have fuch Tafte of Water , therefore it is commonly Malt Liquor or Wine% Laftly, after Supper, or at going to Bed, it may be very ufeful j but if fuch as love flrong Liquors cannot comply with this, it will be their great Intereft to drink a large Glafs every Morning, and another afterDinner; this will prop up their Body, to follow B 2 1 4 ’ they;