The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

  • Harper, Andrew, -1790.
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[1789]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. 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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    generates Bile^ and prepares the Body for Fluxes, intermittent, putrid, and epidemic Fevers. Thole, who are much expofed to flrong Fires, or to intenfe Heat of any Kind, Ihould wear coarfe Linnen, or Cotton next the Skin, fliould fliift often, and wafh the Face and Hands with cold Water, and a little common Salt dilTolved in it, twice a Day. In the Heat of Summer, a moderate Portion of Wine, or Spirits, is quite ne- cefTary, both to fupply the Confumption occafioned by the Increafe of Perfpiration, and to recruit the exhaufted Strength, and alfo to fliarpenthe greater Quantities of di- luting Liquors, which Thirft naturally re- quires. Therefore, one Way with another, there ought to be con fumed nearly as, much ftrong Liquor, in the Summer as in the Winter Seafon. Cold gives Tenfion or Firmnefs to the Fibres, condenfes the Fluids, compacts the Texture