The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one / [Anon.] by J. Hill, M.D.

  • John Hill
Date:
1771
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one / [Anon.] by J. Hill, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. V. Of air for elderly per fans. NO T HING contributes more to health and long life than pure and good a>r : but by pure we are not to under¬ fund bleak ; nor are aged perfons at any time to chufe that kind. It is ftrange fo many fhould live to a great age in London, where the air has neither of thefe characters; where we breathe fmoke, and the mixt flench of a thoufand putrify- ing fubflances; which cannot evaporate through the thick and foul atmofphere of the place. fcut though none will queftion the fupe- nor excellence of a clear country air, yet let not him who has attained to a healthy three¬ score and ten in London, think of leaving it, as a way to continue his days to a longer period. 1 hey fay ufe is fecond nature. It really becomes nature itfelf; and bad things, to which an old man has been very long ac- cuHomed, are often better than fudden chan¬ ges. It is well known, that many who have leached an uncommon date of life, have pe- rifhed
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