The hydropathic treatment of diseases peculiar to women; and of women in childbed; with some observations on the management of infants / [Edward Johnson].

  • Johnson, Edward, 1785-1862
Date:
1850
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Credit: The hydropathic treatment of diseases peculiar to women; and of women in childbed; with some observations on the management of infants / [Edward Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The history of the earth and its inhabitants, how- ever, clearly proves that as man is capable of inhabit- ing all latitudes, he is also capable of supporting himself on the kind of food which each latitude most readily and abundantly yields. If the Esquimaux refused to eat fish, they would starve. There are many other viands which are, in them- selves, not unwholesome. But, though not un- wholesome, they are certainly unnecessary. They are only taken for the sake of variety, or because one is particularly fond of them ; and, in either case, are only so many inducements and temptations to eat too much. Fish, puddings, &e., come under this head of unnecessariés; and are only bad in their character of seductions to excess. All this, how- ever, only applies to persons in health; for, among invalids, we sometimes meet with cases, in which it is desirable that the appetite should be provoked by every possible means. We have others for whom a pudding diet exclusively is proper; others, again, for whom an exclusive diet of lean meat is re- quired. Pastry of all kinds is bad in every sense of the word, Condiments, excepting salt, are always forbidden _in hydropathic establishments. There is, perhaps, a little unnecessary exclusiveness, an extreme and somewhat trifling punctiliousness, in this matter of