The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-27 00:00:00

DR. PARIS ON DIET.

This Treatise, which has already obtained
" our hearty commendations," has just arrived at
a third edition ; a circumstance no way surpris-
ing when we consider the interesting nature of
the subject, and the skill with which the work
has been put together. The arrangement in-
deed is excellent, and is such as to lead
naturally from one point to another, apparently
without labour, and to render the consideration
of the most complex and most beautiful struc-
ture of the human body, the stomach, at once
plain and intelligible, even to an unprofessional
inculcated b
digest,
v
the
reader. A few instances of the use of technical
expressions now and then occur, but they are of
Tolwie doctriness of
stomach
to rare occurrence, and may therefore be the more
readilypardoned.
sto
the
powers
and the digestibility of the different species of
sustenance administered to the
body
through the
mouth, appear to proceed on sound principles
and just reasoning, and hence their value, as
peptic precepts for our guidance in the great brisi-
ness of refined life, eating and drinking renders
the work worthy of attentive perusal and con-
sideration. The book, however, is not for this
reason, the less deserving the attention of the
medical student, for it seems well-calculated to
extend his knowledge of dyspeptic cases, and the
numerous and painful affections that thus give
rise to cases, indeed apparently of very minor
importance, but which as being fraught with un-
mitigated misery to the patient, and being most
difficult of cure, one would have thought worthy of
the anxiousand serious enquiries of the students of
the medical art. These diseases, and inure espe-
cially hypochondriasis, have for a long time
formed the opprobrium medicornm, and have
long since demanded that attention from the
medical world which they have now, for the first
time obtained. Dr. Paris traces these disease
through their several stages, and shows how, in
very many instances, common attention to diet,
and perseverance in a strict regimen will, and
have often, restored the tone of the stomach, and
removed tormenting illnesses which had resisted
every effort of min.
, • .inc, and defied the skill of
the physician. Dyspepsia is, indeed, but too com-
mon, and the world must, therefore, be greatly
indebted to any author who puts them in pos-
session of this secret, and shows to demonstra-
tion the truth of his propositions ; who thus en-
ables a man of common judgment and common
resolution to free himself from evils, that thos.
only can appreciate who have once . felt 'their
force, evils which make life a burden, and escape
from which would be cheaply purchased by lay-
ing down that life. But dyspeptic complaints
do not soon or easily kill. Their torments must
he endured, for they bear cleat! A on their wings,
they must first introduce chronic disorders, or
lead to some internal complaints before they de-
stroy. Dr. Paris has given us this secret in his
treatise on diet ; and we strongly and urgently
recommend his work to the perusal of such of
our unfortunate fellow mortals, as experience
the effects of dyspepsia, and have hitherto found
medicine useless.
For all this, the Doctor is no enemy to the
table sub modo, and with due attention to the
powers of the stomach to digest what we allow