Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption, Scrofula, Cancer, Asthma, and Other Chronic Diseases: In which the Advantages of Pure Soft Water Over that which is Hard are Particularly Considered : Together with a Great Variety of Facts and Arguments Showing the Superiority of the Farinacea and Fruits to Animal Food in the Preservation of Health |
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... kind of food ; at length , however , feeling an increase of tone and vigor in the digestive organs , and at the same time a great improvement in the keenness of appetite and relish for food , he took , insensibly and by degrees , to ...
... kind of food ; at length , however , feeling an increase of tone and vigor in the digestive organs , and at the same time a great improvement in the keenness of appetite and relish for food , he took , insensibly and by degrees , to ...
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... kind . But having made this avowal , it is equally obvious that on no subject whatever has there existed greater fallacies and delusions , than in the estimates that have been formed of the efficacy of medicines , and the other ...
... kind . But having made this avowal , it is equally obvious that on no subject whatever has there existed greater fallacies and delusions , than in the estimates that have been formed of the efficacy of medicines , and the other ...
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... kind and cultivated . The cause of these phenomena is the consti- tution of the seasons ; for Asia is placed toward the rising of the sun , removed from the cold . This , of all circumstances , tends to produce increase and mildness ...
... kind and cultivated . The cause of these phenomena is the consti- tution of the seasons ; for Asia is placed toward the rising of the sun , removed from the cold . This , of all circumstances , tends to produce increase and mildness ...
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... kind , in ancient times , laid the foundation of the doctrines of the cele- brated treatise of Hippocrates , de Aere , Aquis , et Locis ; and though some of the distinctions , found in that treatise , may have been founded upon local ...
... kind , in ancient times , laid the foundation of the doctrines of the cele- brated treatise of Hippocrates , de Aere , Aquis , et Locis ; and though some of the distinctions , found in that treatise , may have been founded upon local ...
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... kind in every common water I have examined , except two . One of these was the water of the Bristol Hot Wells , a water which is known to be very light upon the stomach , though it is a good deal loaded with earthy salts . To this ...
... kind in every common water I have examined , except two . One of these was the water of the Bristol Hot Wells , a water which is known to be very light upon the stomach , though it is a good deal loaded with earthy salts . To this ...
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Page 103 - The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive proof of its nourishing quality, or of its being peculiarly suitable to the health of the human constitution.
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Page 107 - The teeth of man have not the slightest resemblance to those of carnivorous animals, except that their enamel is confined to the external surface. He possesses, indeed, teeth called canine, but they do not exceed the level of the others, and are obviously unsuited for the purposes which the corresponding teeth execute in carnivorous animals...
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Page 44 - Since disease is one of the appointed checks to excessive population, and the plan of Providence in the creation of human life requires the termination of the existence of one-third of its creatures before they have attained the age of two years, it may be doubted whether the annihilation of so efficient an instrument as Smallpox can be admitted without the substitution of some other equally destructive malady.
Page iii - Additional Reports on the Effects of a Peculiar Regimen, in Cases of Cancer, Scrofula, Consumption, Asthma, and other chronic diseases.
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Page 120 - It was worthy of remark how much his sight and hearing were superior to other persons on board the ship ; the sound of a distant gun was distinctly heard, or a strange sail readily discernible, by MOYHANGER, when no other man on board could hear or perceive them.
Page 42 - ... mentioned. The difference is indeed remarkable, as will appear from the following particulars. One half of all born in the mountains live to the age of 47. In the marshy parish, one half live only to the age of 25. In the hills one in 2O of all that are born live to 80.
Page 37 - The vallies where cretinism is most frequent, are surrounded by very high mountains ; they are sheltered from the currents of air, and exposed to the direct and still more to the reflected rays of the sun. The effluvia from the marshes are very strong, and the atmosphere humid, close, and oppressive.