Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or an inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits.

  • Chandler Robbins
Date:
1825
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Credit: Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or an inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. General Sketch of the Manner in which the Disorders oj Men of Letters are induced. We suspect there are few men, if any, in this country, who injure themselves by study. A person who has been familiar with the habits of our most learned men, and those too who are esteemed the most studious and inde- fatigable, would be astonished at the intense application of the scholars ot Euope ; and yet the latter are much less liable to disease than the former. We are constantly exclaim- ing against the studious habits of our men of letters ; yet the truth is, that application is the only thing wanting to make them as learned and as eminent as any in the transatlantic world ; and proper regimen is the only thing wanting to make them as healthy. Nothing contributes more to health than a constant and an habitual use of the intellectual faculties. The good will of the world is too apt to attri- bute the ills of sedentary men to the intense-
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