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Plain Rules For Attaining To A Healthful Old Age.
is very wrong . Old men differ as much from one another , as old from young ; and according to their several constitutions , a various course of life is necessary in this respect . Therefore we shall establish no peculiar diet as fit for ever 3 * old person ; but only lay down certain general rules . These will hold universally , because they are calculated for old people , merely as the 3 > - are old ; not as they are of one or another constitution .
• Lighter diet is more proper for aged persons than jfbr 3 oung ; and this in their liquors as well as solid food . Beef and pork should be avoided ; for the stomach will rarely be able to digest these when it is not assisted by exercise . Lamb , veal , pig , chickens , and tame rabbet , are very excellent food for old persons ; and out of theseif there are no othersa
tole-, , rable management may produce a variety . No aged person should eat more than one meal of solid food in the da 3 * . The stomach will be able to manage a dinner when the breakfast and supper have been li ght ; otherwise the load of one meal not being gone off before another is brought in , neither will be digested . The substantial meal should be dinner ; and this should not be
eaten too early , that the appetite may not be violent for supper . It has been observed alreacty , that the quanti ty of food at a meal should be less for old persons than for 3 'oung ; and the older they grow , the more this should be diminished . This was the-practice of Hippocrates ; and by the observance of it Cornaro lived to extreme age . J . S ,
Experiments Illustrating The Properties Of Charcoal.
EXPERIMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE PROPERTIES OF CHARCOAL .
From CRELL ' CHEMICAL JOURNAL
1 . ^ M OMMON vinegar , on being boiled in a matrass with charcoal ^_ ^ powder , became perfectty limpid like water . 2 . The following are some of the remarkable effects that take place in the purification of honey : —As long as honey diluted with a sufficient quantity of water is boiled with charcoal powder , a very unpleasant and peculiar smell is perceived . If the charcoal powder is not added to the hone 3 ' and water (
hydromel ) in a quantity sufficient for absorbing all , the mucilaginous parts , the filtrated hydromel constantly appears of a semitransparent blackish colour ; and this continues till the necessary quantity of charcoal powder is added , and then the liquor runs through the filter as clear as water . If the residuum of charcoal powder which served to deprive the honey of its smell and slimy matter be lixiviated with a large quantity of water , the matter will acquire a similar semi-pellucid black colour .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Plain Rules For Attaining To A Healthful Old Age.
is very wrong . Old men differ as much from one another , as old from young ; and according to their several constitutions , a various course of life is necessary in this respect . Therefore we shall establish no peculiar diet as fit for ever 3 * old person ; but only lay down certain general rules . These will hold universally , because they are calculated for old people , merely as the 3 > - are old ; not as they are of one or another constitution .
• Lighter diet is more proper for aged persons than jfbr 3 oung ; and this in their liquors as well as solid food . Beef and pork should be avoided ; for the stomach will rarely be able to digest these when it is not assisted by exercise . Lamb , veal , pig , chickens , and tame rabbet , are very excellent food for old persons ; and out of theseif there are no othersa
tole-, , rable management may produce a variety . No aged person should eat more than one meal of solid food in the da 3 * . The stomach will be able to manage a dinner when the breakfast and supper have been li ght ; otherwise the load of one meal not being gone off before another is brought in , neither will be digested . The substantial meal should be dinner ; and this should not be
eaten too early , that the appetite may not be violent for supper . It has been observed alreacty , that the quanti ty of food at a meal should be less for old persons than for 3 'oung ; and the older they grow , the more this should be diminished . This was the-practice of Hippocrates ; and by the observance of it Cornaro lived to extreme age . J . S ,
Experiments Illustrating The Properties Of Charcoal.
EXPERIMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE PROPERTIES OF CHARCOAL .
From CRELL ' CHEMICAL JOURNAL
1 . ^ M OMMON vinegar , on being boiled in a matrass with charcoal ^_ ^ powder , became perfectty limpid like water . 2 . The following are some of the remarkable effects that take place in the purification of honey : —As long as honey diluted with a sufficient quantity of water is boiled with charcoal powder , a very unpleasant and peculiar smell is perceived . If the charcoal powder is not added to the hone 3 ' and water (
hydromel ) in a quantity sufficient for absorbing all , the mucilaginous parts , the filtrated hydromel constantly appears of a semitransparent blackish colour ; and this continues till the necessary quantity of charcoal powder is added , and then the liquor runs through the filter as clear as water . If the residuum of charcoal powder which served to deprive the honey of its smell and slimy matter be lixiviated with a large quantity of water , the matter will acquire a similar semi-pellucid black colour .