Rules for preserving the health of the aged, by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, &c. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French of J.A. Salgues.

  • Salgues, Jacques Alexandre.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Rules for preserving the health of the aged, by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, &c. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French of J.A. Salgues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the invalid's weakness, and a less severe and more restoring diet indulged in. On the first attack of gout, we should commence by discontinuing all animal food, and especially fat and succulent meats. The preference is to be given to the vegetable world. It alone should be used for nourishment, if the patient en- joy a good constitution, and has preser- ved a strong stomach. These means, con- jointly with milk diet,have frequently cured gout; but this regimen also should be taken to slowly. When too hastily adopt- ed, it would produce inconvenience, and reduce the frame greatly. When the attack is on its decline, if the stomach be habitually weak, chocolate or aromatic soups may be used to dissipate the languor. During the intervals, tempe- rance should be strictly observed; at the same time bearing in mind, that the old person being almost always weakened by age and his former excesses, cannot submit