Note 78 — PEPTIC PRECEPTS.
Reading edition
“Those who have weak stomachs, will be better able to digest their food, if they take their meals at regular hours; because they have both the stimulus of the aliment they take, and the periodical habit to assist digestion.”—Darwin’s Zoonomia, vol. i. p. 454.
“We often tease and disorder our Stomachs by fasting for too long a period, and when we have thus brought on what I may call a discontented state of the organ, unfitting it for its office, we set to a meal, and fill it to its utmost, regardless of its powers or its feelings.”—Abernethy’s Surg. Obs. p. 70.