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

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afterwards confider the effects of ftrong liquors. When we take food in too great quantity, or of too nourifhing a qua- lity, it will either produce inflamma- tory difeafes, fuch as pleurify ; or by exhaufting the excitability, it will bring on ltomach complaints, gout, and all the fymptoms of premature old age. This follows fo evidently from the laws we have inveftigated, that it is fcarcely neceffary to fay more on the fubjedt; and I am fure there are few who have not feen ex- i amples of it. Be