On the injurious effects of mineral poisons in the practice of medicine : comprising an epitome and commentary on the system of Luigi Cornaro for attaining old age, and on the new system of medicine of F.V. Raspail (Every man his own physician), to which the Montyon Prize of 10,000 f. was lately adjudged at Paris, embracing all the details necessary for person to give this system a trial &c. &c. / by Horatio Prater.

  • Prater, Horatio.
Date:
1846
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Credit: On the injurious effects of mineral poisons in the practice of medicine : comprising an epitome and commentary on the system of Luigi Cornaro for attaining old age, and on the new system of medicine of F.V. Raspail (Every man his own physician), to which the Montyon Prize of 10,000 f. was lately adjudged at Paris, embracing all the details necessary for person to give this system a trial &c. &c. / by Horatio Prater. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. AN EPITOME OF THE SYSTEM OF LUIGI CORNARO. PAGE Introduction 1 Comoro's Plan of Life 5 Remarks thereon, and the question, viz. whether the Instinct of Nature, as regards Sleep, should be followed unreser- vedly, answered in the affirmative ; and, as regards the quantity of Food and Drink, under the Guidance of Ex- perience. Effect of Habit on Sleep, Eating, &c 9 Instincts of Nature as regards Vomiting and Purging at the commencement of a Disease to be followed, and those actions not to be checked—To be checked only when they become a habit of the oeconomy 12 But never to be checked by Mineral Poisons: exclusion of these from the practice of physic insisted on, except, per- haps, those in very small doses, as Phosphorus, &c, which form component parts of the human body in its natural state. Of course all other mineral constituents of the body may be employed 13 All Vegetable Medicines may be used, including, perhaps, even the Vegetable Poisons, in very minute doses 16 Animal Substances — Experiments suggested with Rennet — Transfusion of the Blood—Eggs, and Oysters, and Liquid Food for Old Persons—Respiration of Oxygen, or cautious use of Oxygen Water, or dilute Deutoxyd of Hydrogen— Ossification may almost be called a natural cause of death in Old People—Frictions of paralysed parts, with the nerv- ous or medullary substance of animals just killed 17 All Habits to be changed gradually 20 Reflections on the fact that some substances (as Prussic Acid), consisting of the elements of the body, are poisons 21 Trial of Gelatinous Silica as Nutriment for Vegetables and Animals 22 Substances existing in the body should not probably be em- ployed at first in larger proportions than found in the body 24