The Oracle of Health and Long Life, or Plain Rules for the Attainment and Preservation of Sound Health and Vigorous Old Age: With Rational ... Deduced From Personal Experience, - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Oracle of Health and Long Life, or Plain Rules for the Attainment and Preservation of Sound Health and Vigorous Old Age: With Rational Instructions for Diet, Regimen, &C. And the Treatment of Dyspepsy or Indigestion; Deduced From Personal Experience, and the Best Authors on Dietetics

Though a certain period of. Existence is, by the laws'of Nature, prescribed'to the life ot'man,.yet daily experience proves, that that period may be either'shortened or pro~ longed in a considerable degree, according as the truths relating to health and disease, and the principles of life and death, are understood and called into action. This knowledge; it has been well said, should form an important part of general education; for no axiom is of more indisputableautho rity than'this - that ignorance abridges life, and knowledge extends its duration.

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