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Page vii
... Persons Use of Suppers • Epilepsy produced by Injudicious Lowering Sources of Head Disorder • Diet before and after Surgical Operations Nature of Indigestion Accidental Indigestion Protracted Disorder from Undigested Food Bile on the ...
... Persons Use of Suppers • Epilepsy produced by Injudicious Lowering Sources of Head Disorder • Diet before and after Surgical Operations Nature of Indigestion Accidental Indigestion Protracted Disorder from Undigested Food Bile on the ...
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... persons , in health , but with no similar calls upon their strength , meals few and sparing , varied in quality , nutritious , but neither too easy of digestion , nor combining adventitious stimulants , and just hearty enough to prevent ...
... persons , in health , but with no similar calls upon their strength , meals few and sparing , varied in quality , nutritious , but neither too easy of digestion , nor combining adventitious stimulants , and just hearty enough to prevent ...
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... person told me , in conversation on the subject of digestion , that his brother , a middle - aged man , not deficient in muscular strength , and lead- ing a country life , is compelled to take his break- fast immediately on rising . If ...
... person told me , in conversation on the subject of digestion , that his brother , a middle - aged man , not deficient in muscular strength , and lead- ing a country life , is compelled to take his break- fast immediately on rising . If ...
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... person , who has had two or three threatenings of an apoplectic seizure ( for which I have attended him , and which have been averted by prompt and copious deple- tion , by cupping and aperient medicine ) , is in the habit of eating ...
... person , who has had two or three threatenings of an apoplectic seizure ( for which I have attended him , and which have been averted by prompt and copious deple- tion , by cupping and aperient medicine ) , is in the habit of eating ...
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... person of greater physical vigour would not feel the want of a third meal ; a spare person , not of the first strength , would want it , and have no doubt about , and obviously incur no risk in taking it . It is a rule of dietetics not ...
... person of greater physical vigour would not feel the want of a third meal ; a spare person , not of the first strength , would want it , and have no doubt about , and obviously incur no risk in taking it . It is a rule of dietetics not ...
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Management of the Organs of Digestion: In Health and in Disease (1837) Herbert Mayo No preview available - 2008 |
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Page xii - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health...