Observations on the nutritive properties of Acacia-Gum, known in commerce under the names of Gum-Arabic & Gum-Senegal, and on the uses to which it may be applied in tropical climates / by Richard Pearson.

  • Richard Pearson
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on the nutritive properties of Acacia-Gum, known in commerce under the names of Gum-Arabic & Gum-Senegal, and on the uses to which it may be applied in tropical climates / by Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken almost incessantly ; so that the want of distention will be compensated by the qua- lity of the alivieut, and the frequency of its ingestion. This is seen to be the case in convalescence from acute diseases, and in the feeding of many young gmimals,* Indeed full meals should never be in- dulged in by persons who undertake jour- neys in tropical climates. Capt. Tuckey, (Narrative, p. 214) represents the Congoese as ^'extremely abstemious; a little raw ma- nioc and water, and their pipe, for a day. By this spare diet they escape those febrile dis- orders to which fiill-feeding strangers are liable. As it has been stated in the beginning of these observations, that life may be sup^ ported by gum-arabic alone, the admixture of starch may seem superfluous. We would
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