The villager's friend and physician. Or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance; supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary. With cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c ... / [James Parkinson].

  • Parkinson, James, 1755-1824
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The villager's friend and physician. Or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance; supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary. With cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c ... / [James Parkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gross riot treasures up a wealthy fand Of plagues, but irremediable ilis” Attend the lean extreme. ARMSTRONG. JT am not one of those who can calculate, toa grain, on how little a man may keep life and soul together, but yet I cannot refrain from cautioning you against waste, and reminding you, that good housewifry will make one pound go as far as two. One species of indulgence I must, however, warn you against—the taking too freely of spiceries with your meals. Mustard, pepper, &c. substances of so fiery a nature, that, if applied pure to the skin, would soon excite a considerable degree of inflammation; or which, if blended with milder substances, and applied frequently, would harden the skin, and deprive it of its health- ful sensibility, are taken into the stomach, with as little caution as though they were as mild ‘as milk, and without considering that effects, similar to those they produce on the skin, succeed fo their application to the stomach. The substances of which we are speaking, taken into the stomach, even in the quantity in which they most frequently are used, render the stomach less sensible to the calls of nature, and less capable of performing its function of digest- ing the fcod: at length heart-burn, sour risings,