The means of promoting and preserving health / [Thomas Hodgkin].

  • Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
1841
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Credit: The means of promoting and preserving health / [Thomas Hodgkin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    saccharine roots, 71—Sugar, 72—Pulpy succulent vegetables, 73 —Raw vegetables, 74. Animal Substances: —Flesh-meat—Fibrin, gelatine, albumen, 75—Fat, osmasome, clean and unclean animals, 76— Mutton, 77—Beef, veal, pork, 78—Modes of cooking, 79—Soups, 80—Salting, 81 —States of meat, 82—Birds, reptiles, 83—Fishes, 84——Shell- fish, 86. Choice of Food: Vegetable and Animal Food compared, 86—Regula- tion of diet, 88—Low diet, poor diet, 90——Full diet, 91—Gene- rous diet, 92—Regularity and temperance, 92— Examples of Temperance: Plutarch, Cornaro, Jenkins, Parr, Effingham, Lacedzemonians, Romans, Monks and Friars, Moravians, 94—101. Drinks :—Absorption, and passage through the system, 101—Kinds of drink—Diluents: Rain and snow-water, spring-water, river-water, 106--109—Stagnant water, tanks and conduits, filtration, 110—- Toast-and-water, 112—Vinegar-and-water, lemonade, wine-and- water, 113—Beer, 114—-Cider and perry, and light wines, 115,116 —Nutritious Drinks: Milk, 116—Cheese, 117—Milk, with tea, coffee, &c. 119—Tea, 120— Coffee, 122—Cocoa and chocolate, 124 — Soups, 125 — Stimulating Drinks, 126—Strong beer, 127—- Wines, 129— Popular errors respecting wine, 132 —Distilled spirits, ]33—Brandy, whiskey, 135— Gin, rum, arrack, koumis, compounds and cordials, 136—Effects of ardent spirits, 137— 158 —no danger in abandoning them, 159.—Examples of Abstinence : American prisons, Spartans, Rechabites, Mahometans, Hottentots, United States, Temperance Societies, 159—166. Provocatives, 166—Sugar, 168— Tobacco: chewing, taking snuff, smoking, 170—173—Betel-nut, bitters, acids, spices, 177— Curry, dram-drinking, opium, 178—Dinner-pills, magnesia, quack-medi- cines, 179—Advantages of Temperance, 181. ADDITIONS AND NOTES TO LECT. I. Gluten, 182.—Bread made light without yeast, 182,—Potatoes, 183.— Sugar, 184.—Preservation of vegetables, 184.—Gelatine from bones, ~ 185.—Processes for the preservation of food, 186.—Principles of the art of cooking, 195.—Dietary tables, 209_—Leaden pipes, 211.—Tea, broma, milk, 212.—Animal broths, 213.—Use and abuse of fermented drinks, 214.—Beer between meals, 214.—Spirits not necessary against cold, 215—Spontaneous combustion, 216.—Tendencies and effects of
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