Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or a treatise on the art of (deo volente) living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. Embracing all the most approved principles of health & longevity, and exhibiting particularly the remarkable power of proper food, wine, air, exercise, sleep, &c; in the cure of obstinate chronic diseases, as well as in promoting health and long life; to which are added, the art of training for health, rules for reducing corpulence, and maxims of health for the bilious and nervous, the consumptive, men of letters, and people of fashion; illustrated by cases / By Thomas J. Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or a treatise on the art of (deo volente) living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. Embracing all the most approved principles of health & longevity, and exhibiting particularly the remarkable power of proper food, wine, air, exercise, sleep, &c; in the cure of obstinate chronic diseases, as well as in promoting health and long life; to which are added, the art of training for health, rules for reducing corpulence, and maxims of health for the bilious and nervous, the consumptive, men of letters, and people of fashion; illustrated by cases / By Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 case, there is more or-less feverishness, and all the secreting surfaces are, so to speak, bound up; a condition which an animal diet, from its stimulus, has a strong tendency to maintain and increase, and the mild, bland nature of vegetable food contributes to overcome. In the gout, for instance, a large proportion of vege- table food is, for the most part, to be recommended, particularly in the earlier attacks, and in plethoric habits. On the contrary, in those nervous and bilious complaints which consist in-a simple de- rangement of the functions of the stomach and small intestines, (and such are the generality of these maladies,) a diet chiefly of animal food is found the best, because it is more easily digested than vegetables; in other words, it does not require the exertion of so great a power in the weak- ened organs of digestion, while there is nothing in their condition to contraindicate its employment: but on this subject I but if they proceed unchecked and unalleviated, some change in the texture of the stomach, bowels, head, or other part, may be Superinduced, and then we have a positive disease.