The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury.

  • Salisbury, James Henry, 1823-1905.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    mouth and throat. If those surfaces were in perfectly normal condition, we should not crave this cooling-; this taste, like the appetite for liquors, wines and drinks of all description, is a cultivated and abnormal one. Such have no place in the healthy system; they are symptoms of disease and warn us of a subbasic cause which must be removed. I have known con- firmed drunkards, after they have been kept from all spirituous liquors and cured of diseased appetites by the restoration of tone to the digestive apparatus, to admit that they preferred hot water to liquor in any form, and to keep it up throughout life as a stimulant to digestion. Lukewarm water has also been tried, but was found to excite upward peristalsis and to make the men sick at the stomach. It was only after repeated experiments that the most favorable temperature, amount and hours for taking the hot water were determined accurately as above given.