Note 95 — PEPTIC PRECEPTS.

“A constant adherence to one sort of Diet, may have bad effects on any Constitution. Nature has provided a great Variety of Nourishment for Human Creatures, and furnished us with Appetites to desire, and Organs to digest them.

“An unerring Regularity is almost impracticable, and the swerving from it, when it has grown habitual, dangerous; for every unusual thing in a human body becomes a stimulus, as Wine or Flesh Meat to one not used to them; therefore Celsus’s Rule, with proper moral restrictions, is a good one.”—Arbuthnot on Aliment, pp. 218 and 219.