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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    a good meal it is more likely to impair it. Therefore I think the afternoon tea which nowadays precedes the chief meal is not destructive of the digestive powers. But another modern introduction I most strongly condemn, that of taldng Ices imme- diately after a good dinner. I consider this to be one of the most pernicious, as well as the most senseless indulgences which find favour at dinners in the present day. I beheve Ices to be harmful at any time; but to introduce a frozen mass into the stomach just as the blood has been attracted thereto for the purposes of healthy digestion, is most unwise. Table waters are now being much drunk, and some of these are really beneficial ^the chief among them in my opinion being the Godesberger water which is derived from a natural spring in Germany. I find this water good as a beverage for dyspeptics, and especially for those of gouty tendencies. It has the advantage, too, of being more than ordinarily agreeable as a drink.