An essay on indigestion and its consequences, or advice to persons affected with debility of the digestive organs ... dropsy, etc. ... illustrated with cases, to prove the effects of a new medicine ... Also, remarks on sea or cold bathing / [R. Squirrell].

  • Squirrell, R. (Robert)
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on indigestion and its consequences, or advice to persons affected with debility of the digestive organs ... dropsy, etc. ... illustrated with cases, to prove the effects of a new medicine ... Also, remarks on sea or cold bathing / [R. Squirrell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been owing to drinking it toa ftrong, too hot, in top large a quan¬ tity, or in too great a hurry ; whereby f a temporary relaxation is induced over the whole fyftem, and in confequence^ faintnefs and trembling may enfue. The dinner fliould conlift of every thing that is nourifliing, and at the fame time eafy of digeftion, fuch as lamb, mutton, veal, rabbits, fowls, &c. if roafted, wnth fuitable 'vegetables, .properly correfled, the better; fiHi alfo may be admitted; fhell-fifh, of every kind, are the moft nourifhing. •M Broths or foups fcarce ever agree with weak ftomachs : I have had frequent opportunities of obferving, that folid food, even difficult of digeftion, will fit much'eaffier upon a debilitated, or