Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues.

  • Salgues, Jacques Alexandre.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Rules for preserving the health of the aged by means of air, clothing, diet, employment, the evacuations, etc. &c. And also hints for the alleviation and prevention of those disorders by which old age is usually assailed, without the aid of medicine / Translated from the French. Of J.A. Salgues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tes and Agesilaus entertained of the good efFects of exercise, that they did not con- sider it beneath their dignity to ride a stick with their children ; that Scipio-Lælius, and the grand pontiff Scævola, amused themselves by playing at quoits, and made ducks and drakes” by the water-side, to rid their minds of care, and preserve in full vigoiir their strength and health When employment is added to exercise, it is particiilarly usefiil to those who are loaded with too much fat. Celsus says, “ Léahoî' siccat;” work dries the fibres. Continued imtil it produces perspiration, exercise has, with persons of this class, the best effects, especially if tempérance pré- sidé at their repasts, and if they do not partake of too nourishing food. By such a regimen, Galen speedily reduced a very ** Çicero never omitted to devote an hour or two. every day, to walking. Milton, when blind, and no longer able to take exercise by himself, had a machine constructed in his room, in which he used to hâve himself swung.