A treatise on diet : with a view to establish, on practical grounds, a system of rules, for the prevention and cure of the diseases incident to a disordered state of the digestive functions / by J.A. Paris.

  • Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.
Date:
1827
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    increases the demand, and dry food is followed by the same effect. With the history of morbid thirst we have at present nothing to do. The sensation of thirst appears to reside in the throat and fauces, as that of hunger does in the stomach ; and yet the intensity of this feeling does not bear any relation to the dryness of these parts; for in some cases where the tongue^ to its very root, is covered with a thick and dry crust, there is little thirst; while, on the other hand, it is frequently intolerable at the very time the mouth is surcharged with a pre- ternatural quantity of saliva: like hunger, I appre- hend it must be referred to a particular condition of the nerves. The desire for drink after long speaking is analogous to thirst, but must not be confounded with it. The influence of salted food in exciting this sensation is not well under- stood. 102. Thirst is certainly under the control of habit: those who indulge in the vicious habit of frequent potations are rendered thirsty by its priva- tion. There are some persons who have never experienced the sensation, and who only drink from a sort of sympathy, but who could live a long time without thinking of it^ or without suffering from the want of it. I have a lady, of fifty years of age, at this time under my care^ who has declared that she is perfectly unacquainted with the nature of the sensation. Sauvage relates two similar instances that occurred to himself; and Blumen^