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Yellow is for cleanliness, but also for fever and illness.
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Active pensioners, blooming gardens
To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?
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Homesick for planet Earth
Find out how homesick astronauts spend their free time, and how recreating home cooking from freeze-dried ingredients can cheer them all up.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Sermons on several subjects. Viz. Of pride, luxury, idleness, unmercifulness. Of Uncleanness. Of future Punishments and Rewards. Of Education. Of the Knowledge of God. Of the Service of God, and of Sincerity and Cheerfulness therein. Of God's Omnisciency. Of seeking God. Of Apostacy, and of the Sin against the Holy Ghost. The fifth volume. By John Conant, D.D. Published by John Lord Bishop of Chichester.
Conant, John, 1608-1693.Date: 1708
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Three doctors representing diet, cheerfulness and rest, defend their patient from death. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1813Reference: 11630i
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The Western Medical Friendly Club, 1862 : not meat but cheerfulness makes the feast / [By Western Medical Friendly Club].
Western Medical Friendly Club.Date: 1862-1909
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On the virtues of sage, in lenthening human life. With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / [John Hill].
Hill, John, 1714?-1775Date: [1763]- Books
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The virtues of sage, in lengthening human life. With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness. By Dr. Hill.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: [1763?]
