Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or, A treatise on the art of living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. ... To which is added, the art of training for health ... / By a physician.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1827
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    with much propriety be added, viz. the unusual stress laid on diet. In reference to the latter reason, it ought to be ob- served, that no one has a stronger convic- tion of the value and necessity of atten- tion to diet than the present author, but in all sciences we must learn to distinguish the relative value of different agents, if we would apply them with the best effects. In the directions now given by physicians for the preservation of health, and the cure of disease, so much stress is laid on diet, that regimen (of which exer- cise is the chief branch) is too often over- looked. It is not meant that it is entirely neglected, but that it does not gain the degree of attention which it merits. It is true, that a strict and spare diet is at this time found by almost every one to be use- ful, and by vast numbers absolutely neces-