The invalid : with the obvious means of enjoying health and long life / by a nonagenarian , editor of The Spiritual Quixote ... [i.e. Richard Graves].

  • Graves, Richard, 1715-1804.
Date:
1804
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Credit: The invalid : with the obvious means of enjoying health and long life / by a nonagenarian , editor of The Spiritual Quixote ... [i.e. Richard Graves]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    does a good servant j who chides and vents his passion upon him so often and with so little reason, that the poor fellow will bear it no longer, but quits his service, and leaves the petty tyrant to lament his own folly, and repent of it when it is too late to re- pair his loss. Thus when we are in possession of 3iealth and spirits, we go on at ran- dom ; we take our pleasure, and in- dulge our appetites; we eat, drink, and are merry, regardless of conse- quences, till w'e are checked in our career by some acute disease. We then apply for medical assistance, per- haps take physic, recover our appetite, and again return to our habitual in- dulgence ; and, after a time, are again C 4 seized