On diet, with its influence on man; being an address to parents, &c., or, how to obtain health, strength, sweetness, beauty, development of intellect, and long life / By Thomas Parry.

  • Parry, Thomas.
Date:
1844
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    of perfected operations in human growth and de- velopment, how rarely is it cultivated to maturity! how seldom is its blaze fanned into its full and glorious refulgence ! Infancy, childhood, youth, adolescence, have all their concomitant errors diet- etic, prostrating the desired end ; and when luckily it has been attained, how easily by aberrations from dietetic principle may the whole be blasted. De- velopment of the intellect, that jewel of existence, how rarely is it accomplished to its attainable point! I do not put forth the preposterous assertion that man may be dieted into wisdom, but I do maintain that Diet has its influence in the attainment of it; clearness of the senses, tone of mind, power of re- tention, facility of recollecting, remembering, and ability to continue the operations of abstraction and composition, are much dependant upon the tone, temper, and strength given to, and maintained in, the body by judicious dieting. (Upon the method of exercising the faculties, I may at some future period enlarge.) Long life, how seldom is it at- tained ! how few live years enough to see, examine, prove, and admire that portion of God's gifts for which Man is created ! T. PARRY.