The economy of health or the stream of human life from the cradle to the grave with reflections, moral, physical and philosophical on the successive phases of human existence, the maladies to which they are subject, and the dangers that may be averted / [James Johnson].

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845
Date:
1838
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Credit: The economy of health or the stream of human life from the cradle to the grave with reflections, moral, physical and philosophical on the successive phases of human existence, the maladies to which they are subject, and the dangers that may be averted / [James Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Preiiminary Observations—Definition of Health, l..The chief Ingredient in Happiness, 2.. Power, Riches, Fame, Beauty, &c. without Health, 3.. Religion, Philosophy, Materialism, 4.. Public Health, or Hygiene, 5.. Brahmins, Jews, and Greeks, 6.. Sanitary Code of Lycurgus, 7 .. Spartan Gymnastics, 8.. Ancient Per- sian Dietetics, 8.. Pythagorean Precepts, 9.. Influence of Animal and Vegetable Food, 9.. Man omnivorous, 9.. Division of Life into Ten Septenniads, 11. FIRST SEPTENNIAD. [Wo 7 Years.'] Picture of Earliest Infancy, 12.. State of the Brain and Internal Organs in early Infancy, 13.. Intellectual Operations almost null, 13.. Danger of early Mental Exertions, 13.. Physical Education of the First Septenniad, 14—Food, 14 .. Cloathing, 15.. Calido-frigid Fortifier, 15.. Exercise, 17.. Sleep, 18.. Moral Education of the First Septenniad, 18.. Habits and Manners to be formed in this Epoch, 19. .Importance of Order, Regularity, Punctuality, 19. SECOND SEPTENNIAD. [7 to 14 Years.] The Schoolmaster—unhappy Wight, 21.. Precocious Culture of the Intellect, 21.. Swords turned into Pens, 22..Modes of Elementary Instruction, 23.. Private Tuition—Public Schools, 23 . .Disproportion between Mental and Corporeal Ex- ercise, 24.. Grand Principle of Education, 24.. Proper Premium for Mental At- tention, 24..Systematic Exercise, 25..Dietetic Regimen during the Scholastic Septenniad, 26.. Modern Errors at the Home Table, 26.. Barbarous System of “ Fagging” at Schools, 27.. Contagion of Vice in Public Seminaries, 27.. Lancas- trian System of “ Mutual Destruction,” 28. .Cardinal Objects of Education, 28.. Comparative Advantages of Learning and Science, 29.. Classics and Mathematics compared, 29. .Value of Time in the present State of the World, 29.. Remarks on Originals and Translations, 31. .Education of Females, 32. .Mania for Music, 33 . .Aristocracy of the “ Factory Girls,” 34.. Misappropriation of Time, 34. THIRD SEPTENNIAD. [14 to 21 Years.] Change from the Schoolmaster to the Task-Master—from the Seminary to the Count- ing-house—from the Academy to the College, 35.. Manifold Dangers of the Third Septenniad, 35.. Secrets of the Prison-house, 37.. Evils of the Arts and Manufac- tures, 38..Insalubrious Avocations and Professions, 39..Wear and Tear of Uni- versity Wrangling, 40. .High Mental Cultivation of Mind injurious to the Body, 41.. Comparative Effects of Classics and Mathematics, 42..Dawn of certain Pas- sions and Propensities, 43.. Love the Master-passion in this Septenniad, 44.. Two