Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &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:
1834
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Credit: Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &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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    broths, or stews, wliich are always slow of digestion, containing, as they do, jnde- pendent of nourisliing juices, so thick a mucilage, as to render tbem difficult ot dissolution. Their composition may be improved, and rendered more proper, by the addition of a considérable quantity of water, to diminish tbeir consistency; and under the latter process only, can they be classed among the kinds of nourishment adapted to the old. Common broth is, however, still préférable, and it may be mentioned as the best possible sustenance for a weak stomach. Mastication being always difficult with persons of advanced âge, méat is not al- ways easy of digestion with them ; that of young animais, however, eut small, is both a salutary and agreeable food. I should ne ver forbid their eating beef, well done, veal, kid, mutton, partridge, fowl or pigeon, either roasted, stewed, or en clanhe.