Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management / by Erasmus Wilson.

Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    a week, should every one repair to it, in some shape orr other, either at morn, mid-day, or evening, according: to strength and leisure. There certainly does not existt a greater device in the art of living, or a greater instru- ment for securing a vigorous and buoyant existence., It is one of the most powerful diversions to the current; of business occupation ; it can suspend for a time the pressure of our pursuits and anxieties, 'and return us- fresh for the enjoyment of our other delights. To the^ three varieties of state which our bodies pass daily through, eating, working, sleeping, it would add ak fourth, luxurious in itself, and increasing the relish for all the rest. It would contribute to realize the perfect: definition of a good animal existence, which is, to have the appetite always fresh for whatever is before us. The health of the mind must be based in the first place • on the health of the body ; mental occupation and refined enjoyments turn into gall and bitterness iff they are not supported by the freshness and vigour- of the physical frame. 17, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square.