Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has been made, and who can be certain that the bottle contaming the latter has not been used in a prior existence as a receptacle for blacldng ? A syphon of soda-water is a thing not to be heard of. In the first place, it is not soda-water at all, but so much bottled gas, quite unsafe for consumption; and, in the next place, it has probably been charged with water from some foul and underground well. As many deaths from typhoid, according to medical authority, have been traced to the manufacturer of aiirated waters as to the purveyor of domestic milk. Away, then, at one blow go the gingerades and phosphades, the sparkling fruit drinks, the zoedones, and countless concoctions of modern times that are in- nocently supposed to be the weapons mth which the national vice is to be rendered prostratel No man, even in the cause of morality, cares to prepare his unfortunate body for speedy explosion. In despair he feels that he needs a stimulant. Diet has been reduced by practice and precept to the mildest aud most unappetising form of food. Drink has been rigorousl}^ cut off. Home