The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham.

Graham, James, 1745-1794.

Date:: [1784]

Credit: The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$er the Vegetable fubftances, efpecially young, mild, raw, fucculent vegef- s, good bread, good potatoes, boiled, or roafted, and any of the prepa- ys of the farinaceous grains, fuch as of wheat fbur, oatmeal, rye, bar- rice, fago, &c. to flefh, filh, or fowl. Never eat boiled cabbage or conf- ers, nor perhaps boiled greens of any kind. In boiled vegetables, and rated or boiled water, there is no life or fpirit; they will flatter your relax, four, diflend, and puff up your ftomach and bowels with wind, torment you with acid belchings or cholicky gripfngs. Plain pudding's omanendapple-pyes too, and other fruits, bread and cheefe, turnips i and eat like potaroes, with the {kins on, &c. and pure cold water, and water, or cold water mixed with a little wheat flour or oatmeal, ftrong infufion of baum and fage—or milk, whey, or butter-milk, wit! s be your beft drink.—If you mull eat flefh, let it be that of the - fowls, or of fea-fifh—But I would advife you to abflain from flefh, nd fowl, for at leaft a year or two, if you labour under any foul chro- ifeafe, or till you are perfectly re-eftablifhed in your health, if not foi* do not degrade and beftialize your body, by making it a church- r>r burial place for the corpfes of innocent brute animals, clean and :n, healthy and difeafed, foully fed, tormented, and at laft violently red. Befides, it is impoflible for us to cram daily into our ftoraachs pu- y, corrupting, and difeafed animal fubdances, without becoming ob- s to horrors, dejedions, remorfe, and inquietudes of mind, and to foul difeafes, fwellings, pains, fores, corruptions, diffolutions and premature all of which are the neceffary and inseparable conlequences of clofe hot featherbeds, and of all unnatural, grofs, and inordinate indul- ,, in eating, drinking, and communications. For nothing in nature is ^annihilated. Whatever we fow, that alio muft we infallibly reap, rd to royfelf; if innocent animals mud be murdered, and put out of , for fear as ideots pretend, that they fnould be too numerous, I beg ne othe. executioner than me may be found to butcher them, and tuber burying places tqr their mangled corpfes to rot in than in y. ither no fupper at all, or fparingly of fruit, fallad, good bread, and vveet butter or milk, or rather pure cold water;—and having walked ted wholly and partially your body, private parts, and fundament, or warm water, recommend yourfelf humbiy, yet affedlionately, tly, and cordially to God,—through the all-blcfliQg, and all-pre- nedium, Jefus Chrifl 1 his eternal Son! the Lord and Saviour of the -go peacefully and thankfully to yourchafte, fweet, hard bed, at en o’clock, and fpring up at three, four, or five o’clock every morn- 1 in winter; and having wallied again all over, and worshipped i an affeflionate, enlarged, elevated, and intenfe mind—run through )g day, the fame rational courfe that I have, as above, mod cordially on, and my own bappieft practice and experience, recommended to you. y friendsl as nature delights in variety, as well as in fimplicity, vary , exerciles, amulements, feenes of life, and refldences. Indulge as' loflible in mufic ; and always prefer walking to riding on horfeback, triage; for noi'pecies of exercife, but walking, is in my opinion, natural, inocent. Accullom yourfdves, elpccially when you walk or ride, to fing, or to repeat beautiful and lentimental paffages of our beft au- ric or inprofc; but efpecialJy beautiful, pathetic, and fublime pafla- £0i . mil' K , & J! i rit i y <c8. ,0 ul$