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

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _“ During these 21 days the diet chiefly vegetables, milk, and tea. “July 7. Weighed 16st. July 21. us 14 11lbs. July 30. ce 14 4.” At this period he became ill, having been seduced from his plans by an accidental de- bauch, when in a state least fitted for it. He confesses, in a note, that he rewarded his resolution, by a violent outrage on his sto- mach, eating all kinds of improper things, and suffering accordingly. From the man- ner in which he apostrophises a French pie, it appears to have distributed indigestion to the whole party of convivials, who led him astray. Two months elapsed before he resumed his plans. In the mean time he had increased a few pounds. At the end of September he resumed his course of vegetable diet. He begins his journal with a pithy observation from his favourite, Dr. Beddoes—* No one should be content with his stomach till he has recovered that power of digesting vegetables, which it possessed in the light and joyous