The family physician and guide to health : a system of domestic medicine, including a treatise on midwifery and the diseases peculiar to women / by E.B. Hammack.

  • Hammack, E. B. (Elijah B.)
Date:
1869
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Credit: The family physician and guide to health : a system of domestic medicine, including a treatise on midwifery and the diseases peculiar to women / by E.B. Hammack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When the thigh or ham of the hog is salted and smoked it forms ham, a stimulating food fit only for laborious persons, and which, on account of its difficult digestibility, frequently disagrees with many. *It proves wholesome only to those with whom it agrees. It is best cooked by boiling; when fried it is rendered very indi- gestible, and should not be eaten by dyspeptics and per- sons of sedentary occupations. SAUSAGES May be prepared from the boiled flesh of several animals— in this country they are principally made from pork. The meat is made fine, seasoned with salt, pepper and spices, and is eaten in that state, or more commonly dried and smoked. They are a very indigestible article of diet, being scarcely fit for the stomach of the robust and hardy, and they should be especially rejected by the sedentary and dyspeptic. When exposed for any length of time to dampness they are liable to experience certain chemi- cal changes which render them poisonous. The name scrofula had its origin in the well known fact that it was a disease peculiar to swine. The analysis of the blood of scrofulous subjects shows that it differs materially from that of healthy individuals. In the former there is an excess of serum and a deficiency of albumen and fibrin. Hence the solids formed from this blood are feeble, lax and incapable of resisting exposure, fatigue and disease. It is true that for the most part scrofula is hereditary, still there are many well-marked cases of the acquired disease from the use of pork. VEAL, Or the flesh of the calf, is not so digestible as beef; it contains a large amount of gelatinous substance, as is the case with the meat of all young animals. The best