Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.

Wadd, William, 1776-1829.

Date:: 1829

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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€ 18k) NURSERY MEMS. FORMERLY, all the rules, and regulations of life, particularly nursery regulations, were drawn from the “ Domestic Medicine.” With some, * Buchan” was next to the Bible. These were facetiously denominated “ Buchaneers.” * Buchan, Sir, has done more towards im- proving the health and shape of our girls, than any man living,” said one old lady; “ he popped them all into cold water at Christ- mas!”—“ But for Buchan, my poor hus- band would have died fen years sooner than he did,” rejoined a young widow. “Ah! he was a fine man!” echoed a third. Buchan, however, died one day, and with him were buried, many of the plans by which some people had been braced into health, and others braced out of the world. ‘The late Margravine of Anspach, was, at an early period of her life, so reduced by weakness, that a sister only two years older than herself, actually carried