Volume 4

The rational practice of physic of William Rowley, M. D. member of the University of Oxford, the Royal College of Physicians in London, and physician to the St. Mary-Le-Bone Infirmary, &c. &c. : in four volumes.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806.
Date:
1793
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Credit: The rational practice of physic of William Rowley, M. D. member of the University of Oxford, the Royal College of Physicians in London, and physician to the St. Mary-Le-Bone Infirmary, &c. &c. : in four volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    If the ladealTyftem be pervious, and the glands of the mefentery not induFated, the contrary of which are principal caufes of flendernefs of body; butter, cream, a mode- rate ufe of fat meats, oil, and fuch like fub- ftances, may be highly beneficial. If, how- ever, the lacteal fyftem does not take up at fufficient quantity of oleaginous particles, a thin body can never become more corpulent, but grow thinner and thinner, as old age ad- vances. Irritable PerfonSj or thofe who pojfefs exquijite Senfibility, Thefe ftiould live on the drieft diet poffi- ble^ and avoid all inflammatory ftrong li- quors , &Ci but much, may be found on this fubjedt in the Treatife on Nervous Difeafe^s, contained in the firft and fecond volumes of thefe works. They fliould ftrengthen the body, without ftimiilating the moving pow- ers, or nervous fyflem, and they fliould en- deavour to' command their minds, fo as not to be ruffled. The earneflnefs, on all occafions, of thefe people, and their exquifite feelings, ever diminifh their bo- 5 dily