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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    diet of animal food be every day in- dulged in, with only a moderate por- tion of wine, its baneful influence will blaft the vigour of the ftrongeft con- ftitution. While we are eating, water is the beft beverage. The cuftom of drink- ing fermented liquors, and particu- larly wine, during dinner, is a very pernicious one. The idea that it af- fifts digeftion, is falfe ; thofe who are acquainted with chemiftry know, that food is hardened, and rendered lefs digeftible by thefe means, and the ftimulus which wine gives to the - ftomach