The philosophy of living; or, The way to enjoy life and its comforts / By Caleb Ticknor.

  • Ticknor, Caleb, 1804-1840.
Date:
1840
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Credit: The philosophy of living; or, The way to enjoy life and its comforts / By Caleb Ticknor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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    CHAPTER II. DIET. • If it is true that it is good for a man to eat and drink, and enjoy the good of his labour, two infer- ences may be drawn from the proposition which are equally true :—first, that enjoyment is incompatible with excess of indulgence; and, second, that ab- stinence from the good creatures given us is throw- ing away, and voluntarily placing beyond our reach, the means of a rational and innocent enjoyment. There is a peculiar and most significant meaning in the expression employed by the wise man, and it is one which the labouring man only can duly appre- ciate. Indulgence in eating is known by all medical men to be a fruitful source of disease ; and not only members of the medical profession, but others have speculated to great extent on the question as to what is the most proper food for man. By some, animal food has been condemned, and a vegetable diet re- commended as the only kind fit for rational man; and even at this day there are those who advocate a return to the simple and wholesome fare of the pa- triarchs. Were we placed in circumstances parallel to those under which the patriarchs lived, there would