676 Dr. de mertans’s Obfervations 
which I had made upon the diet of the lower people, de- 
termined me to give my patients thofe vegetables raw 
which they had before been ufed to eat boiled. In con- 
fequence thereof, I ordered them, every morning, ra- 
difhes, fweet turnips, carrots, and young, onions, which 
they eat like apples. At dinner, befides the foup and 
greens as ufual, they eat fallad with a little vinegar and a 
very little oil ; in the afternoon the fame roots as in the 
morning, and at night, greens and fallad. The remedies 
were continued as before. In a few days all the bad 
fymptoms decreafed : thofe who were at the word, and 
had been ill for fome time, began to grow better; thofe 
who had been but {lightly feized were foon well, fo that 
at about a month’s end there only remained a few of 
thofe who had been the word:, and they too were getting 
well 
ladie, qui etoit plus enracinee, je penfai a diflerens autres remedes. Les re- 
flexions que j’ai communiquees cy deflus au fujet de la diete du bas peuple, me 
determinerent a donner cruds a mes petits malades les vegetaux, qu’ils rnan- 
geoient cuits. Je leur fis done donner chaque jours le matin des raves, des navets - 
doux, des carottes, de jeunes oignons ils les mangeoient comme des pommes % : 
a diner outre la fbupe et les legumes comme' a Fo dinaire, ils avoient de la 
falade avec un peu de vinaigre et fort pen d’huile: l’aprcs midi les memes racines 
que le matin, et le foir un legume et de la. falade. On continuoit les memes 
remedes qu’avant. Aubout dequelques jours tous les fymptomes diminuerent; 
ceux qui etoient le plus fortement attaques, et languiflbient depuis plufieurs 
mois, fe trouverent mieux et commencerent a guefir ; les moins malades fe remi- 
rent en fort peu de terns, de forte qu’au bout d’un mois il ne me refloit plus 
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