Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or, A treatise on the art of living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. ... To which is added, the art of training for health ... / By a physician.

  • Thomas John Graham
Date:
1827
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Credit: Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or, A treatise on the art of living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. ... To which is added, the art of training for health ... / By a physician. 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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    food has also a beneficial influence on the powers of the mind ; and tends to pre- serve a delicacy of feeling, a liveliness of imagination, and acuteness of judgment, seldom enjoyed by those who live prin- cipally on meat. Dr. Cullen observes, Vegetable aliment, as never over-dis- tending the vessels, or loading the system, never interrupts the stronger motions of the mind; while the heat, fulness, and weight of animal food, is an enemy to its vigorous effects. And Franklin states, that, in his younger days, he took entirely to a vegetable diet, and found his progress in study to be proportionate to that clear- ness of ideas, and quickness of concep- tion, which are the fruit of temperance in eating and drinking. It should be added, that a vegetable diet, when it consists of articles easily digested, as potatoes, tur- nips, bread, biscuit, oat-meal, &c. is cer- tainly favourable to long life. There are objections, however, to vege- table food, the principal of which are, its constant tendency to strong acescency, or sourness and tartness, which is highly
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