The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c., or, The invalid's oracle : containing peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ... : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will ... / by William Kitchiner.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1828
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Credit: The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c., or, The invalid's oracle : containing peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ... : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will ... / by William Kitchiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    rians. Codes of Dietetics* are almost useless, — the su2:2:estions of Reason are often in di- rect opposition to the desires of Appetite. In most matters regarding the adjustment of that supreme organ of existence,—the Sto- mach,— '* honest Instinctf comes a Volun- * ^ Fool or a Physician at Forty, is an adage con- taining more truth than is commonly believed. — He who has not by that time learned to observe the causes of self- disorder, shews little signs of wisdom : and He who has carefully noted the things which create disorder in himself, must by his own experience possess much knowledge, that a Physician at a pop visit ought not to pretend to, — Da- ■mestic Management, 1813, p. xxxvi. f Grillus, who, according to the doctrine of Trans- migration, (as Plutarch tells us,) had, in his turn, been a Beast, discourses how much better he fed and lived then, than when he was turned to Man again, as knowing then what food was best and most proper for him, which Sarco^ phagists (flesh-eaters) in all this time were yet to seek. — Evelyn's Acetaria^ 12mo. 1699, p. 86. '«Instinct than Reason makes more wholesome Meals. — Young. My Appetite is in several things of itself happily enough accommodated to the health of my Stomach; whatever I take against my liking does me harm; but nothing hurts me that I eat with appetite and delight.— Vide honest Montaigne's Essai/ on Experience, book iii. chap. 13. The Stomach gives information when the supplies have been expended, and represents with great exactness the