Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 43 ] manner and eaten fparingly, with a large proportion of puddings, ripe fruit, butter'milk, &c. In thefe cafes there is often as much danger from \ V the quantity as from the quality of the food. It is perhaps hardly neceflary to remark, that faked meat and high- feafoned cliflies will be particularly in¬ jurious. The inclinations of the fick on thefe occafions ought to be attend-* ed to. If a patient exprefles a defire for any particular fort of animal food, eats it with a good appetite, and it is found to agree with him, the phyfician fhould indulge him in a prudent ufe of it, recommending moderation, and carefully attending to its effects. Some¬ times we meet with patients who are averfe to animal food: thefe lliould live intirely on milk, fruit, &c. Dr* Mutzel of Berlin, in his Obferv. Med* fpeaks of a young woman who was cured](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
