The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay: containing ... instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity / [Andrew Harper].
- Harper, Andrew, -1790
- Date:
- [1789]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay: containing ... instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity / [Andrew Harper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[oat] mark. People of relaxed, delicate and ner- vous Habits, who fhould always avoid too much Aé@ion, at one Time, often hurt themfelves by over Exertion, becaufe they judge it advifeable to take Plenty of Ex- ercife.. There are others, again, who, be- ing confined within Doors, and leading a fedentary Life, think to compenfate for the Want of regular Exercife, by a hard Ride, or Walk, once a Week. But this is a mif- taken Notion. ‘The Nerves of fuch People, unaccuftomed to bear fo great a Degree of Agitation, are overftrained and relaxed by it, while the Circulation of their Fluids, which ~ is, in general, very flow and languid, is thrown into Diforder, from the fame Caufe, and thus a Foundation is laid for thofe very Complaints which it was meant to prevent, Hard Labour, and conftant Exertion evaporates the Nervous Power, diftends and relaxes the Nerves and Vefiels, (unle&& when Labour is habitual, and then indeed it _ has](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33290660_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
