Comments on corpulency : lineaments of leanness, mems on diet and dietetics / by Willam Wadd.

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Comments on corpulency : lineaments of leanness, mems on diet and dietetics / by Willam Wadd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Marshal Albret fainted away, whenever he saw the head of a boar. Hereupon, Bussi forms a sort of kidicrous case of conscience, whether a man who was to fight against the Marshal, should, in honour, be allowed to carry with him in his left hand, the head of a boar. I have seen, says Montaigne, some run away at the smell of apples, as if a musket were presented at them; others frightened out of their wits at a mouse, and others not able to abide the sight of cream, or the stir- ring of a feather bed. The mildest medicines create in some, as great disturbance, as the most violent. Manna, and senna, are dreadfully distress- ing to some persons. One grain of calo- mel, has been known to cause a salivation for weeks, and to produce an instanta- neous eruption. Opium, frequently produces violent irritation of the skin, and many judi- cious physicians never prescribe it to strangers, without inquiring whether they have taken it before, and with what effect. JFallo- pius mentions an abbess of Pisa, to whom he often prescribed pills, who never swallowed G 5