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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    CLASSIFICATION OF ALIMENTS. stomach, and hence arise broken wind, as it is termed, staggers, blindness, &c. The intole- rable fetid odour of sulphuretted hydrogen gas, perceptible when post-horses are fed with oats and beans only, cannot have escaped observation ; and it affords sufficient proof of the mischief which arises from a too-concentrated diet. The same remark applies to men ; and I shall have occa- sion to show hereafter, that the use of chocolate, butter, cream, sugar, and rich sauces, without a due admixture of bread, potatoes, and other less nutritive aliments, is invariably attended with dis- ordered digestion. Unless the taste be vitiated by habit, there exists an instinctive aversion to such food. , « 'j'lig pvudent taste Rejects, like bane, such loathsome lusciousness. The Kamtschadales are frequently compelled to live on fish-oil, but they judiciously form it into a paste with saw-dust, or the rasped fibres of indigenous plants, OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF ALIMENTS. 118. The arrangements which different authors have proposed will be found to vary according to the particular theory by which each may have been influenced. The chemist investigates the composition of an aliment, and arranges it accord- ing to the proximate principles which predominate K 8