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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    nor noxious from its staleness, is in unison with the animating diet of Animal Food, which we are recommending as the most effective anti- dote to debiUty, &c. experience has sufficiently- proved. Good Ale is proverbially nutritive, and as Boniface says, those who drink it— Eat— Drink—and Sleep upon it. There can be no doubt, that the combination of the tonic power of the Hop, and the nourish- ment of the Malt, is much more invigorating than any simple vinous spirit.—While we praise the powers oi pure good Beer,* we must also enter our protest against the horrid compounds commonly sold, as the worst material a man can drink—and the difficulty of obtaining good Beer ready brewed, and the trouble of Brewing is so great—that Happy they who are contented with good Toast and Water (No. 463 *), as a diluent to solid food—and a few glasses of wine as a finishing *' Bornie Bouche.'' Those who do not like Beer—are allowed Wine and Water—Red Wine is preferred to * We can tell you where you can get good Beer in Lon- don—atFiELD's, No. 22, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Brown Stout, Burton Ale, and Cider Superlative, quite as agreeable to the Mouth, and ten times more so to the Sto- mach, than half of the Champagne that is now sold.