On the virtues of sage, in lenthening human life. With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / [John Hill].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
[1763]
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Credit: On the virtues of sage, in lenthening human life. With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We live by perred circulation; we de¬ cline as it becomes impaired; and when it flops we die. It is thus in age we perifh by degrees, and lofe in every flep fome ftrength of fenfe and faculties. Death has a thoufand doors to rufh upon us ; but this by which he makes his flow and regular ad¬ vance, is always open. We enjoy our facul¬ ties and memory by the brain > which to afford them perfed mu ft be full and tender. When this fhrinks and dries, we feel them all impaired, and in the extremes of that condition lofe one or more of them en¬ tirely, according to the part mod dried and fliri veiled. In the prime of life the larger arteries contrad and expand ftrongly, and freely : their contradion forces the blood forward* with a ftrength that carries it through the moil diflant and fmall veffels in the extreme parts y and their expanfion afterwards gives free room to the heart, the feat and fource of life, to throw into them the blood it has received from the veins, in confequence of their