The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one / [Anon].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
[1758?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * accidents and diforders it is propofed here to give the means of avoiding. Old mens difeafes are hard to cure, but they are ealily prevented : and the fame means which preferve their health give happinefs. It muft be a good natural fa- brick which has preferved itfelf entire fo long, and thro’ fo many chances; and the fame ftrength will keep it, perhaps, much longer together under a good re¬ gulation. Moderate diet and proper exercife are the beft guardians of the health of old and young: and in the advanced period here confidered there are two great pre- fcrvatives befides; thefe are ease of mind and CHEERFULNESS OF DISPOSITION, both are the natural offspring of health ; and they will continue the blefling to which they owe their origin. We (hall confider firft the hale and healthy old man; and afterwards the weakly, and the lick : for our pu;pofe is firft to direct thofe how to preferve health who have it, and afterwards to reftore, or to recover it where it is attack’d or en¬ feebled by difeafes. CHAP.