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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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diftance from the Heart or the Brainy, where the Motion of the Fluids is the floweft, the Refiftance, Fridtion, and Scridure of the folid Parts the great- eft, and the Seniation of Pain by the Obftrudion of the fmall Veflels and Dilaceration of the nervous Fibres ex¬ treme. The moft common Seat of it is in the Foot, its Tendons, Nerves, Membranes, Ligaments, and Perio- ftea, or Membranes invefting the Bones. The moft common Caufts of it are an hereditary Difpofition (which operates more ftrongly in this Dif- eaft than in any other) a too rich and high Diet, and too copious Uft of Wine and other Ipirituous Li¬ quors, eipecially at Supper Excefs in fbme other Pleaftires; a full groft Habit of Body •, the too copious ule of acid or four things, the Gout be¬ ing the only Difeafo in which they' are very hurtful to Human Bodies; a fudden