Notes on health : showing how to preserve or regain it, by diet, regimen, &c, with a familiar explanation of the chief functions of the human body, and their relation to the mind / by W.T. Coleman.

  • Coleman, W. T.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Notes on health : showing how to preserve or regain it, by diet, regimen, &c, with a familiar explanation of the chief functions of the human body, and their relation to the mind / by W.T. Coleman. 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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    course. But then, they do not like it; and if it is hard to persuade human nature, under any conditions, to submit to what it does not like ; if He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,— what can be expected of woman's will, when her tastes and inclinations are firmly set against the doctor's advice ? She will not and cannot eat the meat, though seasoned with the assurance that it is best for her. And now, to my patient readers I would just say,— that if you will not or cannot take the diet best for you, at least you might reasonably wish to find that which is the next to best. And yet in this respect you are so liable to err for want of information, that you are perhaps substi- tuting for the animal diet just those very articles of vegetable food which are the least calculated to supply its place; and this not from taste, for you might even~ prefer the fitting substitutes, if you did but know them, to those unfit ones on which you are now starving, merely because they happen to come first to hand. In this case, to guide our choice of the most appro- priate substitutes for meat (as far as appetite will admit), it is only necessary to refer to what has been said at page 28. It will there be seen, that after milk, eggs, and cheese, which come nearest in their qualities to meat, there is the following list to select from. We state them in their order, beginning with the most nutritive. Sound wholesome bread, flour cake or flour pudding, together with macaroni, vermicelli, and similar prepara-