The old man's guide
by John Hill
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hill, John, 1714?-1775
- Title
- The old man's guide to health and longer life : With rules for diet, exercise, and physic; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: E. and C. Dilly, 1771.
- Credits
- Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
- Subject
- Diet -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 70024
- Release Date
- February 12, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE OLD MAN’s GUIDE
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.CHAP. I. How a person in Years is to know he is in Health.
- 5.CHAP. II. The means to preserve a healthful state in old age.
- 6.CHAP. III. Of the fittest diet for persons in years.
- 7.CHAP. IV. Of the foods persons in years should avoid.
- 8.CHAP. V. Of air for elderly persons.
- 9.CHAP. VI. Of exercise for old men.
- 10.CHAP. VII. Of succedaneums for exercise.
- 11.CHAP. VIII. Of a regulation of temper; and of the passions.
- 12.CHAP. IX. Of sleep for old men.
- 13.CHAP. X. Of the particular faults in old mens constitutions.
- 14.CHAP. XI. Of a fulness of blood.
- 15.CHAP. XII. Of wasting and decay.
- 16.CHAP. XIII. Against sharp humours.
- 17.CHAP. XIV. Of pains and inflammations.
- 18.CHAP. XV. Of fluxes.
- 19.CHAP. XVI. Of the gravel and stone.
- 20.CHAP. XVII. Of weakness.
- 21.CHAP. XVIII. Of an asthma.
- 22.ARTICLES considered in this Pamphlet .
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