Excerpt from The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life: By Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, and Peptic Precepts, Pointing Out Agreeable and Effectual Methods to Prevent and Relieve Indigestion, and to Regulate and Strengthen the Action of the Stomach and Bowels
"The choice and measure of the materials of which our body is composed, - and what we take daily by pounds, - is at least of as much importance as what we take seldom, and only by grains and spoonsful." - Dr. Arbuthnot on Aliment, pref. p. iii.
The editor of the following pages had originally an extremely delicate constitution; - and at an early period devoted himself to the study of Physic, with the hope - of learning how to make the most of his small stock of health.
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