Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

  • Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    t *5 ] blood, by giving it a greater degree of confiftence, but without rendering it at the fame time more vifcid. The property which of all others ren- ders the Potatoe fo valuable in the country, is, according to the teftimony of the fa- culty of medicine at Paris, its improving the quality andencreafing the quantity of the milk of animals: it produced this ef- fect on the nurfes of the poor infants of the pariih of St. Roch : at lead: the phy- ficians of this parifh, in their printed certificate, atteft that this food is not only more wholefome than any other procur- able by the poor, but likewife that it pre- vents many difeafes to which children are fubjedt, and by which great numbers are cut off, fuch as ulcers, difeafes of the eyes* atrophy, &c. CHAPTER