An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure / By S.A. Tissot. Now first translated into English.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Date:
1768
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure / By S.A. Tissot. Now first translated into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ corporeal organs, that, if there could “ be a method found. to render men ‘ wife and ingenious, it feems pro- bable that it fhould be fought in phyfick (¢).”. There is a regimen calculated for the ftudious, of which I fhall now give a fuccin@ ac- count (r). La) Ca] Le] La] 1 Hip. (g) De methodo, No. 6. There is likewife a remarkable paflage in Moses Maimonipes, one of the moft ancient of the Arabian phy- ficians, As life and health, fays he, contribute great:y to the worfhip and knowledge of God; but a man in an ill ftate of health is unable to contemplate the works of God as he fhould do; aman ought to take particular care to avoid whatever is hurtful to his body, and fhould en- deavour to procure whatever contributes to keep the body in health and ftrengthen it. De /enit. tuend, init. (r) It muft be acknowledged, that a man of learning, indefatigable in his ftudies, if he ob- ferves an exact regimen, innocent and mode- ‘ 4 rate,