 | Henry Phillips - 1821 - 408 pages
...food that can be taken by those who are brought low*- by long sickness, and are on the recovery.* 159 He adds, " that figs increase the strength of young...wrestlers and champions were in times past fed with figs." This naturalist mentions the African figs as being admifed ; but says, " it is not long since they... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1821 - 428 pages
...says, " figs are restorative, and the best food thajt can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness, and are on the recovery." He adds, " that...strength of young people, preserve the elderly in bettef health, and make them look younger, and with fewer wrinkles. They are so nutritive, as to cause... | |
 | 1831 - 796 pages
...says, ' figs are restorative, and the best food that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness and are on the recovery.' He adds, ' that...wrestlers and champions were in times past fed with figs.' This naturalist mentions the African figs as being admired; but says, ' it is not long since they began... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1831 - 408 pages
...food that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness, and are on the recovery. They increase the strength of young people, preserve the...to cause corpulency and strength: for this cause, professed wrestlers and champions were in times past fed with figs." This naturalist mentions the African... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1846 - 548 pages
...restorative, and the best food that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness, and arc on the recovery." He adds, " that figs increase the...so nutritive as to cause corpulency and strength; on which account, professed wrestlers and champions were in times past, fed with figs." This naturalist... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1847 - 600 pages
...says, " figs are restorative, and the best food that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness, and are on the recovery." He adds, " that...make them look younger, and with fewer wrinkles." The process of capriftcation, which has been used from time immemorial, in the Levant, is described... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 356 pages
...naturalist, enumerates twenty-nine varieties that were cultivated in his time. He says of figs, " They increase the strength of young people, preserve the...make them look younger, and with fewer wrinkles." The common DATE-PALM (Phce'nix dactylif'era, Lin. S., xx., 3; Nat. M., Agl. End., ord. Palms) is- a... | |
 | 1878 - 514 pages
...food that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness and are on the recovery. They T Z S c Ic* /\QLU 7 x ) _ l k _ d g ٩Ş E m NB K~ * $@ w|J ' (l M ': p Y coqralency and strength : for this cause professed wrestlers and champion» were in times past fed... | |
 | William Lanier Hunt - 1992 - 230 pages
...sickness, and are on the recovery. They increase the strength of young people, preserve the elderly, and make them look younger, and with fewer wrinkles....to cause corpulency and strength: for this cause, professed wrestlers and champions were in times past fed with figs." Southerners can grow figs so easily... | |
 | Raymond W. Bernard - 1996 - 256 pages
...Pliny, the great health authority of ancient Rome (23 to 79 AD) wrote: "Figs are restorative. They increase the strength of young people, -preserve the...elderly in better health and make them look younger, with fewer wrinkles. " The latest scientific findings support this contention, for it has been found... | |
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that figs increase the strength of young people, preserve the elderly in better health and make them look younger and with fewer wrinkles. They are so nutritive as to cause corpulency and strength ; for this cause,' continues he, 'professed wrestlers... 
