A Lecture on the Preservation of HealthJ. M'Creery, and sold by Cadell and Davies, London., 1797 - 72 páginas |
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A Lecture on the Preservation of Health. by T. Garnett, THOMAS. GARNETT Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 38 - And rouse the heart to every fever's rage. While yet you breathe, away; the rural wilds Invite; the mountains call you, and the vales; The woods, the streams, and each ambrosial breeze That fans the ever undulating sky: A kindly sky!
Página 69 - And that we might not want inducements to engage us in such an exercise .of the body as is proper for its welfare, it is so ordered, that nothing valuable can be procured without it. Not to mention riches and honour, even food and raiment are not to be come at without the toil of the hands and sweat of the brows.
Página 70 - Begin with gentle toils; and as your nerves Grow firm, to hardier by just steps aspire ; The prudent, even in every moderate walk, At first but saunter, and by slow degrees Increase their pace.
Página 62 - Entertained you, and what you have here beheld, is a true image of the deceitfulnefs and mifery inl'eparable from luxury and intemperance. Would you be happy, be temperate: temperance is the parent of health, virtue, wifdom, plenty, and every thing that can make you happy, in this or the world to come. It is indeed the true luxury of life; for without it, life cannot be enjoyed.
Página 69 - Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise.
Página 57 - What unnatural motions and counter-ferments muft fuch a medley of intemperance produce in the body ? For my part, when I behold a fafhionable table fet out in . all its magnificence, I fancy, that I fee gouts and dropfies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable diftempers, lying in ambufcade among the difties.
Página 49 - But all to no purpose. The more he tries to heat himself, the more he chills. All the mischief is here caused by the violent action of the heat. To avoid this, when you come out of a very cold atmosphere, you should not at first go into a room that has a fire in it, or, if you cannot avoid that, you should keep for a considerable time at as great a distance as possible, and, above all, refrain from taking warm or strong liquors when you are cold. This rule is founded on the same principle as the...
Página 39 - ... questioned, whether the plan now advocated does not, in the end, prove even the most economical. Dr. Garnett has correctly remarked, that going a short time to breathe the pure air of the country, every day, is much more effectual than spending whole days, or even weeks, in the country, and then returning into the corrupt atmosphere of the town, and residing constantly in it.
Página 68 - Exercifc been aVfolutely neceflary for our 'Well-being, Nature would not have made the Body fo proper for it, by giving fuch an Activity to the Limbs, and fuch a Pliancy to every Part as...
Página 38 - Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind ; Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air ; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sick'ning, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully Heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.