The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life By Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep and Peptic Precepts, Pointing Out Agreeable and Effectual Methods to Prevent and Relieve Indigestion
9781465554376
134 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
THE ART OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING L I F E Diet and Regimen. “The choice and measure of the materials of which our Body is composed,—and what we take daily by Pounds,—is at least of as much importance as what we take seldom, and only by Grains and Spoonsful.”—Dr. Arbuthnot on Aliment, pref. p. iii. The Editor of the following pages had originally an extremely Delicate Constitution;—and at an early period devoted himself to the study of Physic, with the hope—of learning how to make the most of his small stock of Health. The System he adopted, succeeded, and he is arrived at his forty-third year, in tolerable good Health; and this without any uncomfortable abstinence:—his maxim has ever been, “dum Vivimus, Vivamus
