Annals of health and long life : with observations on regimen and diet, so necessary to the preservation of life : including records of longevity, with biographical anecdotes of one hundred and forty remarkable persons, who attained extreme old age / by Joseph Taylor.

  • Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Annals of health and long life : with observations on regimen and diet, so necessary to the preservation of life : including records of longevity, with biographical anecdotes of one hundred and forty remarkable persons, who attained extreme old age / by Joseph Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Why merely for the sake of gratifying his Epicurean palate; which gives him but a momentary satisfaction, and, by disorder- ing his stomach, brings on a train of dis- agreeable sensations and diseases, which mock the power of medicine, and, at length, terminate in his dissolution. How many young persons, of the most exquisite under- standing and the most amiable disposition, have been carried off by such an act of in- discretion in the flower of their youth, who, had they been a little more abstemious, might have lived to be an ornament to so- ciety, and have enjoyed the company and fellowship of their friends, instead of leaving them to bewail their loss. And first, in order to preserve the body in health, it is necessary that we lay before the reader a few observations on the subject of Indigestion ; which gives rise to many complaints and disorders, that do not continue long before they spread their baneful influence over the