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The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c.; or, The invalid's oracle: containing peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the bowels ... To which is added, The pleasure of making a will ... / By William Kitchiner.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1828
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Credit: The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c.; or, The invalid's oracle: containing peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the bowels ... To which is added, The pleasure of making a will ... / By William Kitchiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the rest Flesh-meat, — Beef, Mutton, Pork, Veal, Hare, Rabbit, Goose, Turkey, Fowl tame and wild, and Fish. I generally chose the strongest meats as fit- test, since they agreed well with my stomach: to keep up the power of my body under this great diminution of my food, I seldom took any. Garden stuff—finding that it commonly lessened perspiration and increased my weight. “JT drank four ounces of water with» my meat, and a pound of Claret after I had done eating. At night I ate nothing, but drank 12 ounces of water with a pipe of Tobacco.” p. 63. “< There is but one Weight, under whicha grown body can enjoy uninterrupted Health.” p.- 91. ‘That Weight is such as enables the Heart to supply the several parts of the body with just qualities of blood.” p. 100. ‘The weight under which an Animal has the greatest strength and activity —which I shall call its Athletic Weight, —is that weight under which the Heart —and the proportion of the weight of the Heart to the weight of the body, are greatest: the strength of the Muscles is measured by the strength of the Heart. ic palit