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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    Nothing is more common than to fee, even very young children come to the table after dinner, to drink a glafs of wine. The leaft quantity produces violent effedts on their accumulated excitability, and by quickly exhauft- ing it, ruins their conftitutions through life, and often renders them habitual drinkers. I can fcarcely help attributing in fome degree the many ftomach com- plaints we meet with, among young people in the prefent age, and which were unknown to our forefathers, to the abominable practice of buffering children