The best methods of improving health, and invigorating life. By regulating the diet and regimen ... / By T.J. Graham.

  • Thomas John Graham
Date:
1842
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    sionally, a slight feverishness,, for a single day, owing to the fatigue which attending his patients necessarily brought upon him. By the blessing of God on these means, he reached the great age of one hundred and forty years. We are certain also, that the noble Venetian Cornaro, perfectly restored his health, after the age of forty, and pro- longed his life to above a hundred years, by living according to the same rules. At the age of forty, irregularity and disease had brought him apparently to the very gates of death, from which a correct mode of living so entirely delivered him, that he became hearty and strong, and always spoke with uncommon satisfaction of the constant se- renity of mind he consequently enjoyed. Admiral Henry, of Rolvenden, in Kent, (who was living not long since,) was, as late even as his fiftieth or sixtieth year, almost a martyr to various chronic diseases, and had been made a cripple by them, but was entirely restored by carefully and perseveringly ob- serving a proper course of living. Some years ago, he had reached the age of ninety- one, and was then totally without complaint, and could walk three miles to the neighbour-