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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    Fumigations often repeated are ve¬ ry beneficial. Subfiances abotindincr with vola- O tile oily Salts, Subftances faponace- ous, aromatical, as thofe Vegetables which abound with a volatile Oil. When there is not a fufficient Plethora, a Diet wholefbme, plenti¬ ful, and nourifliing, at the fame time flrengthening the Organs of Digeflion, is often effedlual. After Relaxing, fuch Subftances as ftrengthen the folid Parts in ge¬ neral, are beneficial,- it is by this Quality that Steel operates foftrong- ly in this Diftemper, and like wife as being an Antiacid. See Chap, 1. i8. A Woman, who byfbme unufual Htemorrage has that natural DefeiSfc fupply’d, is only to be cur’d by topical Remedies. J)lf~