Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or, A treatise on the art of living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. ... To which is added, the art of training for health ... / By a physician.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Sure methods of improving health, and prolonging life, or, A treatise on the art of living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen. ... To which is added, the art of training for health ... / By a physician. 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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    2. It is particularly necessary here, to avoid being chilled after having been heated, and to be careful of the evening dews. 3. On your arrival take some aperient medicine once a week, for the first month. Your medical attendant will direct the kind and quantity; but if he is not at hand, take three grains of calomel mixed with two grains of James's powder, and four grains of compound extract of colo- cynth, made into two pills, with a little syrup. 4. Your diet should be particularly sparing the first year, as advised under the preceding section, which consult also as to the proper exercise, bathing, and clothing. The fuller your habit, the more sparing must be your diet, and the more you will require purgative medicine. 5. There are a number of excellent fruits in all the Islands ; take care they are fully ripe ; and eat little of them at a time, in the morning or afternoon. 6. If you have a choice, take a house on a rising ground, remote from swamps.