1828 DIET & Health Medicine Prevention Cure Diseases Digestive Functions Stomach

1828 DIET & Health Medicine Prevention Cure Diseases Digestive Functions Stomach

“A Treatise on Diet” by John Ayrton Paris is an early 19th-century work that scrutinizes the impact of diet on health, debunking previous dietetic advice due to its impracticality and resulting public distrust. Paris questions the reliability of instinct in dietary choices, altered by civilization, and promotes a balanced view of diets influence on health, highlighting moderation and the interplay between foods quality, amount, and digestion. He integrates contemporary physiological, chemical, and pathological insights with practical dietary guidelines, underscoring diets role in medical therapy and the culinary arts in making food digestible and enjoyable. The book synthesizes diverse dietary principles into a unified set of health-enhancing and digestive-cure rules.

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PARIS, J.A.

A Treatise on Diet: With a View to Establish, on Practical Grounds, a System of Rules for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases Incident to a Disordered State of the Digestive Functions.

New York: E. Duyckinck, Collins and Co., Collins and Hannay, and O.A. Roorbach, 1828. 1st edition

Details:

Collation: Complete

iv, 210

Reference(s): Simon 1131

Provenance: Handwritten – Frederick W. Eldred

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Size: ~9.25in X 5.75in (23.5cm x 14.5cm)

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