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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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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    nourlsliment from the various parts of creation, for the preservation of Its animaluation and form : Then removing, first, the useless part of this nourishment by the Intestines : Secondly, dicharging the accumulation of the animal principle derived from the same nourish- ment by the lungs : and. Thirdly, giving outlet to the various saline pro- ducts arising from the operations of the economy, by the kidneys, the skin and the other less«r excretions. OF THE DIFFERENT CON^'STITUTIONS, OR TEM- PERAMENTS OF MANKIND. In order to judge properly of the different ef* fects of diet on the human body, the various constitutions of mankind, on which It Is to act, claim a preliminary share of attention. Man is not always the same. A change In his habits Is conspicuous at different periods of life, and each individual also differs at all times In many lead- ing circumstances from another. This has given rise to the dift^erent constitutions or temperaments —a doctrine very ancient, and which has received from modern observation a number of modifica- tions. By temperament is properly meant a peculiar constitutional conformation or combination of cir- cumstances in the habit, renderlns-the action of all B 4 agents