Longevity : the means of prolonging life after middle age / by John Gardner.

  • John Gardner
Date:
1874
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Credit: Longevity : the means of prolonging life after middle age / by John Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    to the stomach. It promotes the digestion and assimilation of the food, and will generally, if taken freely, supersede aperient medicines, whilst it will equally correct a disposition to diarrhoea. If plain hot water should be imagined to be inadmissible, the addition of a small quantity of some light bitter, such as is acquired by pouring boiling water on a slip of dried orange-peel, and allowing it to cool down to the drinking-point. There is sold by druggists a concentrated in- fusion of orange-peel, a teaspoonful of which added to a tumbler of hot water imparts a bitter very agreeable to most persons. This saves trouble, and proves a valuable promoter both of appetite and digestion. An eminent surgeon has recently amused and surprised a large audience by expressing the opinion, that the importance of obtaining pure water is exaggerated. He regards it as a matter of indifference whether we drink one kind of water or another, alleging that as it can never be found perfectly pure, a little more or less of organic or earthy matter may be disregarded. We are so accustomed to have in popular assemblies the
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