A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nothing conduces more to health, than abstinence and plain food, with due labour. For studious persons, about eight ounces of an- imal food, and twelve of vegetable, in twenty-four hours, is sufficient. Water is the wholesomest of all drinks; it quickens the -appetife, and ‘strengthens the diges- tion most. Strong, and more especially spirituous liquors, are a certain though slow poison. Experience shows there is very seldom any danger in leaving them off all at once. Strong liquors do not prevent the mischiefs of a surfeit, nor carry it off so safely as water. Malt liquors7 except clear small beer, or small ale, of due age, are exceeding hurtful to tender persons. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful to persons who have weak nerves. Tender persons should eat very light suppers ; and that two or three hours before going to bed. They should constantly go' to bed about nine, and rise at four or five. A due degree of exercise is indispensably neces- sary to health or long life. Walking is the best exercise for those who are able to bear it; riding for those who are not. The