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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The truth of this remark will be evident to all those who have examined human na- ture with an impartial eye ; for whatever Selfish worldlings may suppose, genuine happiness even here, must in a great de- gree, if not entirely, depend on our moral conduct in any station. Strong firm health is the lot of but a small part of the members of civilized socie- ties ; and this obviously proceeds from our erroneous education, by which the senses, appetites and passions, gain a dangerous predominance over the reason and con- science ; because we fear self-denial earlier than we know guilt; and are delighted with the pleasures of self-gratification be- fore wfe are conscious of the excellence of virtue. By these injudicious gratifications, health is often utterly lost, to a degree that no Wealth can re-purchase, or skill and assi- duity restore. How many instances of this kind have I, in the course of fifty years, had occasion to lament! I now mention the fa6l as a serious and solemn warning to those who still possess the blessing. a So