The Friend to Health: Being a Selection of Valuable Truths Relating to the Preservation of Health : from the Works of Thatcher, Franklin, Thompson, Salzmann, &c

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Marsh and Capen, 1826 - 107 páginas
 

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Página 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 13 - ... who, being the longest liver, may be supposed to have best preserved his health, that he slept always in the open air ; for, when he had lived five hundred years, an angel said to him; "Arise, Methusalem, and build thee an house, for thou shalt live yet five hundred years longer.
Página 2 - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. DISTRIcT CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the...
Página 51 - ... of a morning ride, but of making long journeys, in which there is the farther advantage of a perpetual change of air. Numbers of people, reduced to a state of great weakness, have, by...
Página 45 - Pears resemble much in their effects the sweet kind of apples, but have more of a laxative quality, 'and a greater tendency to flatulence. " Cherries are, in general, a wholesome fruit, when they agree with the stomach, and they are beneficial in many diseases, especially those of the putrid kind.
Página 35 - ... or take much exercise. It will often sit easy upon stomachs that can digest no other kind of food ; and its fat is almost as easily digested as that of veal.
Página 40 - The white of eggs is dissolved in a warm temperature, but by much heat is rendered tough and hard. The yolk contains much oil, and is highly nourishing, but has a strong tendency to putrefaction; on which account, eggs are improper for people of weak stomachs, especially when they are not quite fresh. Eggs boiled...
Página 80 - The plain diet and invigorating employments of a country life 'are acknowledged on all hands to be highly conducive to health and longevity, while the luxury and refinements of large cities are allowed to be equally...
Página 38 - BUTTER. Some writers inveigh against the use of butter as universally pernicious ; but they might with equal reason condemn all vegetable oils, which form a considerable part of diet in the southern climates, and seem to have been beneficially intended by nature for that purpose. Butter, like every other oily substance, has doubtless a relaxing quality, and if long retained in the stomach, is liable to become rancid ; but, if eaten in moderation, it will not produce those effects. It is, however,...
Página 2 - An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints.

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