Observations on pulmonary consumption, or An essay on the Lichen islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder.

  • Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive, 1759-1836.
Date:
1802
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    possible, says Doctor Tardyf, that from the colour of milk being analogous to that of the chyle, from its mild insipid taste, and from the nutritive and balsamic qualities prepared by the hand of Nature herself, for the stomach of young animals, we may be deceived, and induced to believe from analogy that it is equally adapted to the impaired and infirm stomach ? Let us consider how great a diffe- rence there must be between the tender and delicate, but healthy stomach of an infant, and that of an adult, debilitated and weak, whose digestive organs are worn out or obstructed by vitiated juices, acids, or substances imperfectly concocted; if we will, I say, call to mind the nature of the decomposition which this fluid undergoes, before it can be digested ; and attend to the painful labour which it must occa- sion to the stomach of a Patient in this state; in a word, if we reflect on the putrescent prin- ciple which it must communicate to the whole jnass of the fluids, which in the consumptive are + Rccherches sur la Phthisie pulmonaire par le Dr. Whittc, translated from the English, by A. A. Tardy, Physician of Montpel- ier, note 27,