The virtues of sage, in lengthening human life : With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / by Dr. Hill.

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
[1763?]
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Credit: The virtues of sage, in lengthening human life : With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / by Dr. Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any thing more healthy than their neigh¬ bours, and who enjoy the fame advantages of air and fober living. One might have eoncltided rafhly from this, that Sage has not thofe virtues which have been afcribed to it; but befide the concurrent teftimony of all antiquity* and in a manner of all nations, in it's favour, I could not but remember alfo, that to corro- borate my prefent old man’s teftimony, I had both feen arid heard things to the fame purpofe : and thofe fo ftrong, that they could not but make fome impreflion. I can remember a woman of the little town of Stangrdundy near Peterborough, fo old, that for that reafon only, fo far as I ever heard* Ihe was called a witch. About five yards fquare of ground, enclofed with a mud- wall before the door of her little habita¬ tion, was planted with Sage; and ’twas not only her account, but that of all the place, that fhe lived upon it. Her exadt age could not be known, for the was older than the regifter; but the people in general remem¬ bered