Memoirs of Portugal, historical and medical / [William Thomas].

  • Thomas, William
Date:
1819
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    acted upon by those causes, which we may sup- pose are invariably necessary to the forming of diseases. The spare yet nutritious articles of food which this country produces in vast variety, and with which the natives seem perfectly satisfied, are more congenial to the Portuguese constitution, than the more gross heavy provisions which the English are accustomed to require, and which render their digestion laborious; and, although it may strengthen the constitution and make him hardy, necessarily requires great exercise and la- borious exertion of body and mind, to counteract and prevent the accumulation of bodily disease, and by creating inordinate passions, and other at- tendant misfortunes, which are too often observed to blemish the English character. The markets in Lisbon are amply supplied with vegetables of every description, and with which the country so luxuriantly abound: it is surpris- ing to see to what an extent Nature seems to have carried her producuions, and how human art and industry are invited to strengthen her inten- tions, and add to the comfort and aggrandizement of the whole: here every thing appears spontane- ously to flourish; and here human ideas of in-