An essay on diet and regimen, as indispensable to the recovery and enjoyment of firm health, especially to the indolent, studious, delicate, and invalid, with appropriate cases / by J.M. Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay on diet and regimen, as indispensable to the recovery and enjoyment of firm health, especially to the indolent, studious, delicate, and invalid, with appropriate cases / by J.M. Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I FMEFACE. BEFORE the reader proceeds to the perusal of this Essay, it is requested that the Preface be previously read with atten- tention, as it will explain certain terms, not generally understood, and obviate pe- culiar prepossessions and prejudices. It is well known that though a Preface appears in the front of a book, it is the last part of it that is printed ; as it contains a review of the subsequent parts of it. The outlines of the following Chapters were sketched after I had quitted the lucra- tive exercise of my profession, (though not entirely the gratuitous part of it) ; and had resigned my books to a near relation in the medical line. But I trust that the want of books may not render this Essay less useful for my purpose ; which was to impress the reader with a just sense of the importa/uce of the subje6l, not as applicable in the cure of a diseases