A practical treatise on diet, and on the most salutary and agreeable means of supporting life and health, by aliment and regimen : adapted to the various circumstances of age, constitution, and climate; and including the application of modern chemistry to the culinary preparation of food / by William Nisbet.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on diet, and on the most salutary and agreeable means of supporting life and health, by aliment and regimen : adapted to the various circumstances of age, constitution, and climate; and including the application of modern chemistry to the culinary preparation of food / by William Nisbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    the mode of relief must necessarily be sought for ill the reversing of that plan of liv- ing which gave rise to the diseased state. In the following work it has been the leading abject of the Author, to unite the knowledge of particular facts with general principles and reasonings; and to carry these reasonings no further than to connect facts and principles with practice. He has collected together a greater mass ot matter than has appeared before in any single book, and, without assuming any merit to himself, his work must be useful entirely on that account. It might, indeed, have been extended to a much larger size ; but his chief labour was to condense his materials, that he might enable readers o all descript ons to acquaint themselves with a subject of such particular importance, and exhibit every fact, at the same time, in the simplest and clearest point of view. Nothing, indeed, could tend so much to improve the science of medicine, as to en- deavour to make man acquainted with him- self. The principles of the animal economy rendered familiar and plain, and a knowledge conveyed of the action of substances upon it,