An easy way to prolong life, by a little attention to our manner of living : Containing many salutary observations on exercise rest, etc. ... and some remarks on drunkenness, smoking ... The second part / [John Trusler].

  • John Trusler
Date:
[1775?]
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Credit: An easy way to prolong life, by a little attention to our manner of living : Containing many salutary observations on exercise rest, etc. ... and some remarks on drunkenness, smoking ... The second part / [John Trusler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    titlous (pints are fo amicable and friendly to our bodies, in their own nature, as not to be equally deadly injurious, with that which is not fo fami¬ liar. Befidcs, their being fo very volatile, light, and active nature, much fooner recovers herfelf* than if the morbific matter were more folid, ponderous, and fixed. And, further, Thofe bad fymptoms in other difeafes are more to be feared, becaufe they depend, perhaps, up¬ on malignant caufes ; fuch as, by time3 may be rooted in the confutation, or from the defection of fome principal part; but the ftorni arifing from drunkennefs, as it is fuddenly raifed, fo common¬ ly it foon abates. But though drunkennefs be not mortal, nor the danger, perhaps, great for the prefent ; yet drunken bouts frequently repeated, their reliefs will accumulate, weaken nature, and lay the foundation of many chronic difeafes. Nor can it be expedled otherwife^ fo that we may juftly conclude, from the manifeft irregular adtions which appear to us externally, that the internal fundtions and their motions are flrangely difor- dered : for. outward madnefs proceeds from in¬ ward impulfes and difordered motions of the fa¬ culties ; which general difturbance muft of courfe overturn
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