The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ... To which is added, The pleasure of making a will ... / By William Kitchiner.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1824
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Credit: The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ... To which is added, The pleasure of making a will ... / By William Kitchiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they indulge in the habit of inviting sleep, by taking any of the preparations of Opium,— they are all injurious to the Stomach —and often, inconvenient in their effects upon the Bowels. “ The Paregoric Elixir” is the most agree- able anodyne — I have found that a tea- spoonful in a wine-glass of water just as I lie down in bed, generally produces imme- diate and very refreshing Sleep — and I have found it especially beneficial when my Bowels have been distressed by Diarrhoea.— It is also recommended for Coughs — and I have given it at night to Children in the Hooping Cough, in doses from 5 to 20 drops in a little water, or on a bit of sugar. ‘‘Repose by small fatigue is earned,— Weariness can snore upon the flint, when nesty Sloth, finds a down pillow hard.” As there can be no good Digestion without diligent Mastication,— so there can be no sound Sleep, without sufficient Exercise. The most inoffensive and agreeable Anodyne is to drink some good White Wine, or