Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M. B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    and boiled flefh differ confiderably, during the fame time of cooking, in their qualities ; the juices of the roafted are kept in and protected from the exhaufting power of the lire by the cruft formed round it; whereas irKboiling, the water penetrates it and ex- haufts its juices greatly, as is very evident from its iavory broth. The fatter any flefli is, the more it tends to an alcaline ftate, and the more it will pall the ftomach. That one hearty meal in the day is more whokfome than three or four Jlender ones at Jlated intervals. By no means; on the contrary ^ the lefs the ftomach is loaded and oppreffedj the better the procefs of digeftion is carried on. That it is bejl to wait for a confiderable degree of hunger before we eat our meals. Not at all; for the painful uneafinefs we call hunger, in proportion to its duration and increafing violence, muft be very pre- judicial to the ftomach; whether we fup- pofe it to proceed from the attrition of its