An essay on diet and regimen, as indispensable to the recovery and enjoyment of firm health, especially to the indolent, studious, delicate, and invalid, with appropriate cases / by J.M. Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay on diet and regimen, as indispensable to the recovery and enjoyment of firm health, especially to the indolent, studious, delicate, and invalid, with appropriate cases / by J.M. Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    diseases (for that part of it does not come within my plan) *, but as indispensably necessary to the preservation of health. Health, contentment, and a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man are the chief of earthly blessings; with which high rank, power, celebrity, and wealth are comparatively of small estima- tion ; so small indeed, that the apparent advantages which might be expedled to re- sult from them, may, by misapplication, be totally perverted or lost. Hence it is, that by the wise dispensa- tions of Providence, the inequality between the different ranks in society are more ap- parent than real; and even in this state of our existence, there is more nearly than is generally supposed,a compensation through- out: hence it is that the virtuous peasant is a much more respe6table and happy man, than the profligate pander of an execrable tyrant—the Sejanus of a Tiberius. * Such was my reliance on the great advantage of regimen, in many cases, equal if not superior to that of medicine, that in all cases of consequence, I left written direaions in the sick chamber, that they might be more accurately complied with. The