Sure methods of improving health and prolonging life, or, a treatise on the art of (deo volente) living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen; embracing all the most approved principles of health & longevity, and exhibiting particularly the remarkable power of proper food, wine, air, exercise, sleep, &c; in the cure of obstinate chronic diseases, as well as in promoting health and long life; to which are added, the art of training for health , rules for reducing corpulence, and maxims of health for the bilious and nervous, the consumptive, men of letters, and people of fashion; illustrated by cases / by Thomas J. Graham.

  • Thomas John Graham
Date:
1831
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Credit: Sure methods of improving health and prolonging life, or, a treatise on the art of (deo volente) living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen; embracing all the most approved principles of health & longevity, and exhibiting particularly the remarkable power of proper food, wine, air, exercise, sleep, &c; in the cure of obstinate chronic diseases, as well as in promoting health and long life; to which are added, the art of training for health , rules for reducing corpulence, and maxims of health for the bilious and nervous, the consumptive, men of letters, and people of fashion; illustrated by cases / by Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION III. MAXIMS OF HEALTH FOR THE CONSUMPTIVE. 1. Both the prevention and cure of consumption mainly depend on maintain- ing and increasing the genera] strength or energies of the frame. You should, there- fore, ever bear in mind, that under a disposition to this disease, if you can pre- serve the general tone of the system unimpaired, you are in a state of security, and that, on the other hand, whatever tends to lower this, threatens your very existence. When actually labouring under an attack of this malady, the same prin- ciples must be strictly adhered to; any other can hardly fail to be fatal. Con- sequently, all debilitating measures must be studiously avoided, even where there appears to be some inflammatory action present. If, under such circumstances, a lowering plan be necessary, it must never be carried beyond the exigency of the case,