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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    colocynth, as directed above at maxim 3, will be useful. 5. Take care that the live stock be regularly fed, and kept clean, otherwise they will soon be in a diseased state, and die; or, if killed, not fit to be brought to the table. 6. To moderate sea-sickness, sit at all times in good air, and be as much upon deck throughout the day as possible. After each fit of vomiting, take a small basin of tea, water-gruel, or broth. A little ether, or Hoffman's Anodyne Li- quor, is sometimes very useful in allaying this sickness; half a tea-spoonful, or more, may be taken in a little water, occasionally.