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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    STfe Quality and Ufe of the pancreatick Juice* i f Subftances too *vifcous or acrimonious^ why hurt^ ful in the fir ft Pajfages. i6 ^ymptoms of Depravation of the FunUion of ths Intefines, ' ibid. Fhe Mechanifm of Nature in converting Aliment into Animal Subftances, 19 ^he Liquors fecern'd from the Bloody re-enter it again with the Aliment, 20 Unfound Juices^ weak [olid Parts^ andObftruc^ tion of the Glands of the Mefentery^ hinder ’ Nutrition, 2 c The Aliment of a Nurfe quickly turn'd into Milk, Nutrition' not proportional to the ^antity of Ali¬ ment, 24 The Aliment enters into the Blood by feveral other Pajfages^ beftdes the Thoracick DuEt, if Thin and liquid Aliment refrejhetb the Spirits the fooneft, 2<5 CHAP. II. Obfervations drawn from the Circulation of the Chyle with the Blood. Chyle cannot pafs through the fmalleft Vejfels of an Animal Body in a healthy State, 16 The Lungs the frft and chief Inftrument of San- guificationj the Mechanifm of this Afiion ex¬ plain'd, 27 Faulty Lungs hinder Nutrition, 51 The Necejfity offuch as have faulty Lungs taking /mail Quantities of Aliment at a time, 32 Why the Lungs are fo fenfible of Acrimony in Aliment,^ ibid. How 1