The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham.

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794.
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[1784]
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Credit: The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    i t |e; I; drink a glafs or two of pure raw cold water after them if you chufe it. When you eat gruel, oat-meal porridge, or hally-pudding for you' f hreakfaft, dinner, or fupper, make it with half wheat flour and half oat< meal,—and equal parts of water, and of new milk, rather than all of one? or all the other, and let every thing be cooked haltily, and in an op*n o? V- uncovered filver, tin, iron, or earthen vefTel. Thofc who with to have ftrong body, a firm brilliant mind, or to retain a blooming yonthful appear ance, and to live very Jong, muft eat and drink every thing as cold as can ^ poflibly be procured ; always remembering fimplicity and moderation in ever]) thing; and abftaining from foreign tea, coffee, and all ftrong liquors. Employ the forenoon in following bufinefs, in attending diligently to you* profeflion and neceffary avocations, and in making your parents, your wife your hufband, your children, your friends, your relations, and your f-r vants, even the meanefl: and rnoft unworthy of them, happy. But let noi your fmiles, your advices, your geuerofity, your kind and obliging office, and attentions, be confined to your own family, or friends—No: Try tr blefs and make happy every <?>ne with whom you meet, come near, or atlo» date, either by chance, inclination, or bufinefs;-,—for believe me, my deal friends ! that in proportion as you make all other people happy, you will yourfelves be happy. Be likewife very kind and merciful to all the brute beafts in the creation, efpecially to thofe of the more domeftic kind, and o| your own houfehold. Nourifh, protect, and cultivate a triendlhip as it were, with every fowl, bird, beaft and fifh that belongs to you, or that you coma near: Thofe poor, fweer, innocent, and perfectly intelligent creatures will all blefs you with their whole hearts;—they will implore and draw down blef- fmgs on YOU and on yours, from the common Father of the Univerfe f':le whofe tender mercies are over ali his works I who fees in fecret, and who will- reward openly and eternally, every good deed, and every merciful aiff. Thu will your bread be turned into a Heaven, in which God and his good angels* and his light and his love will for ever dwell, and you will then enjoy that, peace, that fweet and facred peace! of which foolifh, grofs, cruel, fenfual people can have no conception, and which all the men, and women, and| things, and viciflltudes of this world, can neither give, nor take away. If you are bleffed with children, my friends, be not too anxious abcutj |j, amafling and leaving them large fortunes, or great riches; give them good! education, and inculcate upon their minds good principles and exampltil of virtue, induftry, meeknefs, humility, temperance, regularity, moderation, and felf-denialand infpire them with the laudable defire of attaining knowledge by books, and converfations with wife and good people;—of hav- ing pure, ftrong, healthy bodies, peaceful and ferene minds, and of living in the world, a life fuperior to the grofs, vulgar, vicious, and intemperate herdfc of mankind; and thefe will be fources offai greater and more lafting hap-* pinefs to them, than all the riches, honours and plealures which the world, can beftow; nor will they fail of being happy here—thrice happy hereafter, and their fouls will blefs you for fuch virtuous precepts, habits, and exaral pies, through time, and through ail eternity I Dine at three or four o’clock; I mention this late hour, that you maf eat no fupper, or at moft a bit of bread and a drink of water, an apple, an orange, a little undrefled failad, a boiled or a roafted po'atoe, and a glaf* of cold pure water. At dinner eat rather fparingly a: all times, and always prefer