Volume 1

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liquors, under the name of cordials, it is, in general, a mod pernicious pradice. Nothing is falfer than their affifting digef- tion. All made wines are execrable to the 'ftomach ; they are, if poffible, worfe than punch, which is very bad, yes ! even in hot countries, where, ibany where, there might be fome color for indulging in<it. 0 Mineral-waters, and efpecially chaly- beates, are, generally fpeaking, detrimental in an advanced age. Tobacco, bad, for a habit either of fnufhng, fmoaking, or chawing. Sago, in no fenfe, bad, but for its ap¬ pearance of a nutritious mucilage or jelly, inducing to the error of trufting to it for nourifhment, though, what it contains of it is next to nothing. / . Is
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