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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    rrnK AS ESSENTIAL AS CHANGE OF AIR. ^ Which I have directed the attention of the practi- tioner in a distinct work, the extensive sale of which convinces me that it must be already in the hands of every professional reader, and wiU render any further observations in this place unnecessary. After all, more benefit will arise in dyspeptic dis- eases, from a judicious regulation of the diet and habits of the patient, than from large quantities of medicines ; although I do not intend, by this obser- vation, to undervalue the importance of such agents, when directed by the skilful hand of the physician. The unhappy invaUd, who seeks for relief from the nervous cordials and stomachic mixtures of the empiric, may occasionally derive the feeling of temporary relief, from the operation of stimulants to which the regular practitioner will never resort. Let him remember that such relief, if obtained, must be at the expense of his future welfare- Such expedients have been aptly enough said to be drafts upon the constitution, payable with com- pound interest a few months after date. 345. I shall now recapitulate some of the more prominent doctrines which have been established in the preceding pages—a plan which will not only have the advantage of placing the subject in a simple and perspicuous point of view, but of afford- ing the reader a convenient index to the practical parts of the work.