The mother's monitor, or nursery errors / [James Quilter Rumball].

  • Rumball, James Quilter, 1795-1872.
Date:
1829
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Credit: The mother's monitor, or nursery errors / [James Quilter Rumball]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    morning, I shall have the same at supper? but especially let us old fellows take the first opportune time of eating, and leave to almanack makers the hopes and the prognostics. I avoid constancy in these laws of fasting ; who will that one form shall serve him, let him evade the continuing of it. We harden our- selves in it, our forces are then stupified and laid asleep; six months after you shall find your stomach so inured unto it, that all you have got is only the loss of your liberty of doing otherwise but to your prejudice. The conclusions are evident with respect to diet, says Dr. Rowley,* for every individual, from some pecu- * Rational Practice of Physic, p. 445.