Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies / [by John Rollo].

Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies / [by John Rollo]. 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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    ( '5^ ) Every bad confequence is pre- vented by the recovering lick con- tenting themfelves, for fome time, with a very moderate lhare of pro- per food. We are not nourilhed in proportion to the quantity we fwal- Jow, but to that we digeft. ^ Person on the mending hand who eats moderately, digefts it, and grows ftrong from it. He who fwallows abundantly, does not digeft it ■, and, inftead of being nourilhed and ftrengthened, he withers infenfibly away. RULES,