A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    food may be allowed, but all fermented liquors should be prohibited. If a child is born of scrophulous parents, I would strongly recommend that it be entirely nourished from the breast of a healthy nurse for at least a year: after this, the food should consist of milk and farinaceous vegetables: By a perseverance in this diet for three years, I have ima- gined, that the threatened scrophulous ap- pearances have certainly been postponed, if not altogether prevented ; and that too, in some instances, where we might presume that the predisposition to such disease was very strong, from the operation of heredi- tary influence. THE END. London: Printed by W. Biilmer and Co. Clevdand.Row, St James'i.