A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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    without food for fome time. Perfons who have been fhut up in a coal-work by the falling-in of the pit, and have confequently been without food for fome days, have had their excitability fo much accumulated, as to be intoxi- cated with a bafon of broth. To this fource we may attribute many of the difeafes with which the poor are afflicfhed ; but they are by no means fo common as difeafes of an oppofite nature, which arife from a too free ufe of food. I fhall confine myfelf here to the confideration of what is more ftridtly called food, and after-