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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    CHAP. III. Obfervations drawn from the Nature and moft Ample Analyfis of vegetable Subftanccs. All Animals made immediately or mediately from vegetable Sub flames, j'O Vegetables proper to make or repair Animal Sub^ flames, ft *Vhe Aliment of Vegetables, The Diverjity of Juices of the federal Parts of Vegetables^ and the ‘variety of Juices taken in a Plant which is eaten raw, 54 The Mechanifm of Plants feems to he more rious than that of Animals, ff In what the fpecifick ^alities of Plants rejide» ibid. TJoe EffeUs of the feveral Ingredients of Plants upon Human Bodies, f6 Tafles the Indexes of the Ingredients of Plants, f 8 Plants have different Effells,^ as they are Acid or Alkaline, f9 Of the Qualities of the feveral Kinds of Alimen-- tary Vegetables,^ particularly of the farinaceous or mealy Kind, ibid. Fermentation renders mealy Subflances more eafy of Digeflion. ' 61 The ^alities of fever al forts of Fruit s.^ Leaves^ Sterns,^ Roots of Alimentary Vegetables, 6\ The Ingredients into which V3getables refolve them^ felves by the mofl flmple Operations of Cookery and Chymiflry, 66 Vegetable F^mulfions, ibid. Vegetable Putrefallion. 6f Of the fragrant Spirit of Vegetabhs, ibid.