Water and Vegetable DietThis 1854 work by William Lambe, with notes and additions by Joel Shew, is the American edition of a work originally published in England in 1815. The work sets forth the superiority of a vegetarian diet, in combination with water-treatment, in the prevention of disease and maintenance of health. |
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... Hippocrates concerning Food , and the use of Diluents ; that of Van Swieten - General doctrine of Hippocrates on the effects of Water , -Opinion of Hoffman of M. Cabanis . - Callen's opinion examined.- Some additional considerations on ...
... Hippocrates concerning Food , and the use of Diluents ; that of Van Swieten - General doctrine of Hippocrates on the effects of Water , -Opinion of Hoffman of M. Cabanis . - Callen's opinion examined.- Some additional considerations on ...
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... Hippocratic writings , that Hippocrates was not the inventor of these doctrines , but that they were the current opinions of his times ; and had prob- ably existed at a period anterior to that of any of the records of medicine which ...
... Hippocratic writings , that Hippocrates was not the inventor of these doctrines , but that they were the current opinions of his times ; and had prob- ably existed at a period anterior to that of any of the records of medicine which ...
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... Hippocratic writings we meet with , not merely the same names of diseases , as those employed at this day , but , generally speaking , the same names applied to the same things ; we meet with the same order and succession of events ...
... Hippocratic writings we meet with , not merely the same names of diseases , as those employed at this day , but , generally speaking , the same names applied to the same things ; we meet with the same order and succession of events ...
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... Hippocratic writings ; but there are notices of it , which are sufficiently dis- tinct , and which afford grounds for believing that it was well known at the era of these writings , and that the symptoms of it were essentially the same ...
... Hippocratic writings ; but there are notices of it , which are sufficiently dis- tinct , and which afford grounds for believing that it was well known at the era of these writings , and that the symptoms of it were essentially the same ...
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... Hippocrates to have the greatest influence upon health and disease . He attributed much to the air ; and on this subject he entertained ideas which were sufficiently correct . The spreading of epidemic diseases he attributed to the ...
... Hippocrates to have the greatest influence upon health and disease . He attributed much to the air ; and on this subject he entertained ideas which were sufficiently correct . The spreading of epidemic diseases he attributed to the ...
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