British cholera : its nature and causes considered in connexion with sanitary improvement, and in comparison with Asiatic cholera / by Spencer Thomson.

  • Thomson Spencer, -1886.
Date:
1848
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    endemic causes.” We know that in hot climates the animals generally used as food in more tempe- rate regions, are comparatively few in number, and thrive badly ; but we also know that whilst Divine Wisdom has withheld what would be hurtful, there has been superadded an overflowing and increasing vegetable production, in every way suited to the circumstances and constitutional requirements of the residents. Still, however, animal food may be largely consumed, indeed, made the sole article of diet in a temperate climate, if at rhe same time very active or violent exertion is eng -ed in. It is related by Captain Head, in his f Jo rney over the Pampas/ that whilst making immense exertions, he lived for months together exclusively on beef and water, this being the regular diet of the roamers over these immense plains, who spend most of their time in active exercise on horseback. Thus practically illustrating Liebig’s proposition, that with the carnivora, as with man, when confined to an animal diet, great muscular exertion becomes a matter of necessity, and of course vice versa. The abundant use of ghee, or clarified butter, by the Hindoos, seems rather at variance with what has been advanced, for here is a highly- carbonized animal oil; but, really, if taken immode- rately, it is said to produce hepatic affections; aud it is not improbable that used moderately, it