Lectures on diet and regimen : being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life. Together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families; in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / by A. F. M. Willich.

Date:
1799
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Credit: Lectures on diet and regimen : being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life. Together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families; in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / by A. F. M. Willich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    7 ACE The moderft methods of bracing the body cannot be indifcriminately recommended - - 84 The excellence of the Grecian method illuftrated with an inftance in the hiftory of Captain Cook - Plutarch’s golden precepts - - - 86 Review of the barbarity of the middle ages - 87 The Alchemifts in fearch of original matter > 88 The Tindhire of Gold introduced •> ■ 89 Sketch of the Goldmakers, Rofecrucians, &c. - 90 The produdlions of Alchemy have a tendency to Ihorten life - - - - - 92 They impair the fufeeptibility or power of receiving vital /applies - - - - - 93 Theophrastus Paracelsus, an impudent Infurer of Lives '• - - - - 94 The world of fpirlts was fummoned to aflift - ib. The profeflbrs of jljlrology begin their impofitions - 95 The noted Thurneifen appears at Berlin - - 96 Expofition of that occult feienee, Aftrology • - 97 Cornaro (hows the abfurdity of reforting to fuperna- tural means, by his llluftrious example - 99 Bloodletting came into general ufe - - - 103 In what cafes Venefedion may be of advantage 104 Art of prolonging Life - - 105 The nature of the 5/oo^/inveftigated - - 106 Libatius difeovers the transfufion of the Blood - 108 A fhort account of the Paracelfian ’Theofophifls, or the Society of Rofecrucians - - - 109 The procefs of 7ran//}^on deferibed - - 113 Lord Bacon deviates from the true path of inquiry 113 He advifes the repetition of powerful laxatives, every two or three years—his theory controverted - 117 Modern method of computing the duration of life 118 Medical impojlure, ftill prevalent in our enlightened age 120 The fanatical fyftem of Jacob Bohmen revived in Germany - - - . . Messmer, the Prince of Jugglers, appears with his Animal Magnetifm a ib. An