The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell.

  • Newell, Daniel.
Date:
1825
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Credit: The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    better, and in this respect, it appears to be congenial to the nature of man. But its ex- cessive use without a proper mixture of vege- tables ought to be avoided, for it creates too much blood, and increases the tendency of the humoural system to putrefaction. Persons, possessed of intense vital energies, have less to fear, than those of weak constitutions, from this aliment, though a mixed regimen of ani- mal and vegetable food, is preferable for all persons. Of Milk. This nourishing aliment is the ear- liest food of man, and is most proper for youth. We may judge of the quality of milk by the taste, smell and appearance. It should be of a sweet taste,without odour, and white. When milk does not possess these qualities it usually digests badly. It is useful especially to those, whose digestive organs are weak, in cases of exhaus- tion, phthisick, &c. Milk is not adapted to the feverish, flatulent, thirsty ; or to those who are often afflicted with the headache, or lethargy and gloom. It cannot be recommended to the student and sedentary, except in small quanti- ties. Nor can it be sufficient for the labour- ing man, whose powerful energies require something more substantial, excepting at sup- per. Butter and cheese, generally, should be taken in small quantities; for they possess at once all the good and bad properties of vege- table oils. Roast^ cheese is exceedingly diffi- cult to digest, and is said to give a foul breath. Of Beef. Beef affords nftich animating and healthful nourishment. No flesh is equal to