Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or, An inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or, An inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISORDERS LITERARY MEN. A man who is devoted to the cultivation of letters is too apt to forget that the soundness of his understanding depends much on the vigour of his bodily powers. He regards the application of the means necessary to preserve the latter, as a comparatively tiresome and forbidding employment, and dreams far more of the success he anticipates, or the glory to which he aspires, than of the care he ought to bestow upon his health—the first and most valuable of all blessings, and that which alone can give zest to the enjoyment of any others. The sad effects of this error, which have been too often exemplified and lamented in our immediate neighbourhood, have led us to