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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    SECTION ]V. MAXIMS OF HEALTH FOR MEN OF LETTERS Habenda ratio valetudinis: utendum exercitationi- bus modicis; tantum cibi et potionis adhibendum, ut reficiantur vires, non vpprimantur. Cicero, 1. Remember that the preservation of your health depends chiefly on daily at- tention to three things, viz. Exercise in the open air; a very moderate quantity of the most nourishing and digestible food; and sufficient sleep at night. 2. Nothing can supply the place of exercise in the open air. Without it, the body very soon inevitably grows languid, the circulation is impeded, the general nervous energy impaired, the digestive functions enervated and disordered, and the body becomes an easy prey to some chronic disorder. Hence arises depres- sion of spirits, irritability of temper, pain