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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    fhe EXP LANAT'IOr^ Fire, congealable again by Cold into brit¬ tle Glebes, orCryftals, loluble in Water fo as ro difappear, not malleable, and having fomething in it which afFedleth the Organs of Tafte with a Senfation of Acrimony or Sharpnefs. Of Native Salts there are, Firjl^ Sea-Salt and Sal Gemmae, or Rock- Salt, which are of the fame Nature. The Firft in all Appearance being a Solution of the Second in the Water of the Ocean j thefe two are perfect Salts, fixt and immu¬ table by any Power in Animal Bodies ; for the other Saks are never found in the Urine of any Animal that fwallows them down, but Sea-Salt is always found in theUrineof every Animal that takes it, and in no other. Secondly^ Sal Nitre, or Sal Petre, which is more eafily diffolv’d by Fire, and lefs eafily by Water than any other Salt, it is cold, and affefts the Tongue like a faltilh Ice : It feems to be of a middle Nature, between Foffil and Animal, being pro¬ ducible from Animal Excrements inter¬ mix’d with vegetable Salts. T'hirdly^ Sal Ammoniac of two Sorts, the ancient deferibed by Pliny and DiofeorideSy no more to be founds and the modern, which is a Compound of Foffile, Animal, and Vegetable Salt. This Salt cools Wa¬ ter; it is fix’d in a gentle Fire, and fu- blimes in a great one; its Tafte is quicker than that of common Salt, refembling that of Urine. Fourthh