Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    invigorated, and loses many disorders which he may have had before. If a man begin a course of early rising, the same effects follow; and hence we see, that in addition to the wholesome operation of travelling, on the mind, by drawing an invalid away from himself, into a variety of novel scenes; the habit of frequently changing our place, and the early exercise connected with it, may contribute much to long life by renovating and diffusing over the system that subtile principle of life by which the soul and body are held together. Instances of great lon- gevity have often occurred among travellers. The benefit of ventilation in rooms, and the use of hardihood and exposure to the changes of the weather, have been before spoken of. The next thing which occurs is the hus- banding of the vital power, which is to bje. done by a judicious distribution of energies. Perhaps nothing shortens life so much as premature excitement of the sexual organsij and indeed every the least excess in physic$i love is attended with danger both to the body and the mind. So that Dr. Hufelaud, in his excellent book on the Art of Prolong- ing Lil'e, is right in setting down morality, either in celibacy, or in happy monogamy, as one of the greatest means of strengthen' ing the body and prolonging its existence. ' An important subject here occurs to me>