The treatment and cure of diseases incidental to sedentary life / by William Pearce.

  • Pearce, William.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The treatment and cure of diseases incidental to sedentary life / by William Pearce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their earliest stages, before a series of disordered function is established, and confirmed disease super- venes. The injurious effects of sedentary habits being frequently manifested in some disorder of the fane- tions of digestion and assimilation, we have first treated of the symptoms of that protean disease— dyspepsia; and have endeavoured to lay down a few simple rules, by the observance of which a weak stomach may be “ coaxed ” to perform its functions with comfort, and in proportion to the exigencies of the system, when it cannot be forced to do its duties with rapidity and vigour. # The nervous system being the one which first exhibits the effects of close and long-continued mental labour, we have offered a few suggestions, by the adoption of which sufficient nervous energy may be furnished to supply all the purposes of life, and afford the various organs of digestion, assimilation, and secretion, assistance in the per- formance of their important functions, without itself suffering from exhaustion or premature decay.