Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases. 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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    Fashion is a variable thing, and very different in different countries. In Ruf- iia, at prcfent, none but mally and pon- > deroiis ladies are deemed beauties. In general, we fliould follow Nature as to the appetite for food, and not fooliflily cramp her, by facrificing health to ideal beauty. True beauty coftfifts in being foft luithout weaknefst and being JiniJJjcd more through happinefs than pains^ Such a deficient diet, befides merely reducing the habit, will be foon attended with Vvorfe confequences. The catame- nia • from this deficiency will be ob- ftru(3ed, and the mefenteric glands en- larged. There have been inftanccs where Nature, deprived of animal fufle- nance, has drawn for her fupport all the fat from the omentum ; one of the re- fourccs left for her prefervation. And they get their lovers. Mr. Prior embellifheth the idea by faying, *' Fine by degrees, and beautifully Icfs. this