Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    persons to be trammelled with any very strict rules after the powers oL- digestion are improved by these meansVyet, during the continuance of the ailment we are bound to enjoin caution in the selection of food.^ V^It is impossible, however, to lay down a general rule, for though there are certain articles of diet it may be imperative to pro- hibit in all cases, there are descriptions of food which are easily digested by some, though not by all dyspeptics^ Giving, there- fore, my patients a good choice of dishes, I treat them according to their requirements, as indicated by the state of the secretions, and the poioer they j^ossess of effecting the assimilation of various kinds of food. But in all cases care must be taken to procure eatables and drinkables as free from adulteration as possible, and to avoid every risk of possible disease contamina- tion, producing, as it may, the most dire results, such as the public have become far too familiar with of late j^ears with. respect to infected milk. Here, perhaps, it will be well to warn all persons against an e\dl existing at the