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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    * ,( 5 ) x CHAR I. How the old man ?nay know he is in health. 3 i S allow’d that we know fo little of nothing, as of ourfelves: It has been faid principally of the mind, but it is fcarce lefs true of the body. The fancying we have difeafes will often bring them upon us; and there is as much danger in. forcing ourfelves to believe again ft our feel¬ ing, that we are well, when fome diforder is in the body. This is the lefs common error; but there are more inftances of it than may be thought. To avoid both let the old man read here with a free mind. Let him not fun- 4 pcfe, becaufe God has bleffed him with long health, he is above the reach of fick- nels; nor negleft the care which may conquer, in its beginning, a difeafe that will elfe in the end conquer him. Lee him be as ready to acknowledge real dis¬ orders, as careful to avoid the imaginary* Health confifts in a good digeftion of the food, and a Lee circulation of the blood. The appetite and the condition of the ftomach after eating will fhew the fir ft; and the latter may be known beft by the pulfe. ■That