On diet, with its influence on man; being an address to parents, &c., or, how to obtain health, strength, sweetness, beauty, development of intellect, and long life / By Thomas Parry.

  • Parry, Thomas.
Date:
1844
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Credit: On diet, with its influence on man; being an address to parents, &c., or, how to obtain health, strength, sweetness, beauty, development of intellect, and long life / By Thomas Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    veiling symptoms of these two diseases are, is known only to the experienced and reflective practitioner. Diseases of liver, lungs, kidneys, bladder, head, and limb, are but secondary effects of dietetic error, id est, scrofula and dyspeptic diathesis form their base. Of the sum of human misery, how large a portion is dependant upon deficient strength; weakness, with her train of bodily and mental plagues, mocks and derides the efforts and designs of all she dwells with ; she who unarms vigorous manhood, prostrates the efforts of maternal solicitude, who checks the career of ardent youth, who changes courage into fear, who blasts the buoyancy of hope into the heavy oppression of despondency, and withers the ennobling virtue of resolution, into the feeble vacil- lation of indecision, can only be successfully opposed by dietetical truth. There is no source of strength but in food ; medicine may aid, but food is the stuff that strength is made of. IIow valuable is sweetness of body, and how disgusting is its reverse ! See the foulness of scurvy in its various forms, fetid breath, passive bleedings, ulcers opening, all the secretions polluting, and this combined with utter lack of strength and spirit, and environed by sudden death; all, all from dietetic error. Beauty, the assemblage