An essay concerning the nature of aliments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. In which the different effects, advantages, and disadvantages of animal and vegetable diet, are explain'd / [John Arbuthnot].

  • Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.
Date:
1735
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    coplilegmacy, Bloatednefsj and Drop- {lesj ic is attended often with Palpi¬ tations of the Heart. The Rules for Diet muft be drawn from the Symptoms. See Chap. I. of this Part. Confumption pulmonary. This Difeafe is a Decay of the whole Body, from an Ulcer of the Lungs, the Matter of which is mix’d, circulates with, and infects the Blood, and by its Acrimony infects the whole Mafs of the Fluids. This Diieafe makes up above a tenth part of all the Bills of Mortality about London, is often the Product of a icrophulous Conftitution, or King’s-Evil, feldom invades after Thirty Years of Age, may be pre¬ vented, but ieldom admits of any other than a palliative Cure, and is generally incurable when hereditary, but eafily fo when it proceeds from an accidental Caule. Ic