A treatise of all sorts of foods, both animal and vegetable: also of drinkables: giving an account how to chuse the best sort of all kinds; of the good and bad effects they produce; the principles they abound with; the time, age, and constitution they are adapted to. Wherin their nature and use is explain'd according to the sentiments of the most eminent physicians and naturalists, antient and modern ... / Written originally in French, by the learned M.L. Lemery ... Translated by D. Hay. To which is added, an introduction treating of foods in general.

Date:

1745