Lectures on Diet and Regimen: Being a Systematic Inquiry Into the Most Rational Means of Preserving Health and Prolonging Life : Together with Physiological and Chemical Explanations : Calculated Chiefly for the Use of Families, in Order to Banish the Prevailing Abuses and Prejudices in Medicine, Volume 1

Manning & Loring, 1800 - Diet

INTRODUCTION	1

Strictures on the phyſical education of children	10

The properties of game	13

On the properties of Veal Beef Pork fmoked	41

On the various methods of preferving Eggs	54

Rickets cured by cleanlineſs alone	64

64	67

Definition of a good ſtate of health	70

How too violent perfpiration fhould be treated	156

On the relative falubrity of the different Seafons	162

Different ftrata of Air in a room	168

Effects from exhalations of green plants and flowers	171

On	175

Of heating rooms in autumn	177

Advantage of cleaning them at night	184

Bathing forms the bafis of domeſtic cleanlineſs	190

Rice Oats Barley Millet Mannagrafs 72	72

Of the quality and quantity of this diſcharge	74

The Egyptians reforted to Sudorifics and Emetics	76

Of Salads SpinageSorrel	79

Review of the barbarity of the middle ages	82

Of Onions Garlic Shallot Chives and Radishes	85

They impair the fufceptibility or power of receiving	88

Vegetable Acids excellent correctors of Opium	93

Expofition of that occult fcience Aftrology	94

In what cafes Venefection may be of advantage	100

Libavius difcovers the transfusion of the blood	102

Various methods of correcting bad Water and pre	106

Modern method of computing the duration of life	109

An account of his artful proceedings	116

St Germains Tea for prolonging life	123

A conftant habit of brooking and refifting the	129

Account of a new Inſtitution in Germany	135

Summary account of a Dietetic Syftem	139

Children and young perfons ſhould not too hastily	145

Of Air and Weather	147

Of Evacuations	149

Specific gravity of the different Airs	153

Drs Currie and Franklin quoted	196

Rules for the ufe of the cold Bath	203

Of Panfpermiageneratio aquivoca	204

Account of the Aërial or AirBath	207

Hallers and Bonnets theories examined	210

Proper Colour and Surface of fubftances confidered	213

Influence of the paflions on the bodythey are	216

Salutiferous effects of Flannel worn next the Skin	219

Of the effects of Weeping	224

On the most proper method of covering the Head	225

Of Shirts Coverings for the Neck c	232

Pythagorass advice to avoid paffions and defires	239

Of changing the Shoes from one foot to the other	243

Specification of the Five Senfes and conjectures	249

The Senfe of Sight analyzed	256

Of the Senfe of Hearing	259

Of Friction of the body	265

Of Sleeping and Waking	274

Of the conduct to be obferved in weak Eyes	281

Cautions relative to the Eyes	287

Facts related by Montaldus and Ruffell	296

Title	Lectures on Diet and Regimen: Being a Systematic Inquiry Into the Most Rational Means of Preserving Health and Prolonging Life : Together with Physiological and Chemical Explanations : Calculated Chiefly for the Use of Families, in Order to Banish the Prevailing Abuses and Prejudices ..., Volume 1 Lectures on Diet and Regimen: Being a Systematic Inquiry Into the Most Rational Means of Preserving Health and Prolonging Life : Together with Physiological and Chemical Explanations : Calculated Chiefly for the Use of Families, in Order to Banish the Prevailing Abuses and Prejudices in Medicine, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich
Author	Anthony Florian Madinger Willich
Publisher	Manning & Loring, 1800
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	Oct 26, 2011

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