The London practice of physic : wherein the definitions and symptoms of diseases, with the present methods of cure, are clearly laid down : to which are added proper tables, exhibiting the doses of medicines, and the quantity of purgatives, opiates, and mercurials, in the compositions of the London dispensatory; and complete indexes of the diseases and medicines : the whole calculated for the general use of young practitioners.

Date:
1797
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Credit: The London practice of physic : wherein the definitions and symptoms of diseases, with the present methods of cure, are clearly laid down : to which are added proper tables, exhibiting the doses of medicines, and the quantity of purgatives, opiates, and mercurials, in the compositions of the London dispensatory; and complete indexes of the diseases and medicines : the whole calculated for the general use of young practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much more comfortable. Dry feafons are more health/ than wet: in winter we eat with keener appetites, and digeft better, than in fummer. The temperaments of the air have a great influence over the tempers and dii'pofitions of the human body ; and I have known per- fons of a gay, chearful, and eafy turn, who, in confe- rence of long-continued eafterly winds, have become irafcible, peevifli, and morofe. We fhould be particularly careful in the choice of our food: perhaps many of the complaints, fo frequent in this city, arife from our inattention to this article. The luxury of tha age, and the fafhionable mode of high and expenfive eating, are not only a difgrace to our reafon, but are deftrucStive alfo of our fortunes and conftitutions. A variety of difhes introduces a variety of difeafes. Thofe are the wifeft men who live the moft fimply, and eat moderately. Rich fauces, fpicy ragouts, and entrtr tnets heightened with the fragrant aromatics of both the Indies, however favoury and pleafing to the tafte, are moft afluredly the deftroyers of the very beft con- ftitutions. The beauties of a defert may be admired by the eye; but beware how you indulge your palate with too many confe&ions, and fweet-meats : nothing palls the appetite fo much, nor is fo hard of digeftion. Full and hearty fuppers, even though we may have had little or no dinner, are of dangerous tendency: they cannot well be too light and fparing. Bread well baked, made of pure flour, and one day old, is the beft. The flefh of animals, in the vigour of age, is the moft proper; mutton is preferable to any other butcher's meat, but more efpecially if the animal be about fix years old. Galen