240 -An EJfay on Longevity. 



10. Have there been any inftances of perfons renewing 

 their age, getting new teeth, new hair, &c. ? 



11. What are the other circumftances tending to promote 

 long life > 



12. What is the effect of diet on health and longevity? 

 33. W r hat are the effects of clothing ? 



14. What the effect of habitation, and the difference of 

 living in a town or in the country ? 



15. What are the effects of habits and cuftoms, in regard 

 to early riling, bathing, regular meals, — regular deep, — and, 

 in particular, what are thole minute circumftances on which 

 it is fuppofed that health and longevity principally depend ? 



16. What are the rules regarding medicine which are ac- 

 counted the moft ufeful and lalutary ? 



17. What are the moft remarkable inftances of longevity, 

 and how are they authenticated ? 



18. What are the rules adopted by thofe who have attained 

 great age ? 



19. Have any tables of longevity been drawn up in your 

 neighbourhood, and how do they agree with the one extracted 

 from Hufeland ? 



20. Do any additional obfervations or particulars occur to 

 you on the fubject of health or longevity ? 



No. II. 



Offucb Rules and Habits as may contribute to the Vreferva- 

 tion of good Health and long Life. 



If perfons were to live with the fimplicity of ancient times, 

 it is probable that they would attain long life, without expe- 

 riencing any material illnefs, merely by a proper attention to 

 air, exercife, clothing, and diet. But in the prefent ftate of 

 fociety, the great bulk of the community muft follow, not a 

 natural, but an artificial mode of life, and thence are perpe- 

 tually expofed to various temptation:, which they find it dif- 

 ficult always to refill, and to dangers which they cannot al- 

 ways avoid. In luxurious times, therefore, perfons in gene- 

 ral cannot expect to live long, at leaft with any degree of fa- 

 tisfaclion, unlefs by great care, and by an attention to a 

 variety of minute particulars, which they either learn from 

 Others, or acquire by their own experience. The mafs of 

 ufeful facts and obfervations thus accumulating every day, 

 and peri filing daily with thofe who had acquired them, mult 

 be very great. Unfortunately, hitherto, no individual has 

 taken the trouble of collecting them. Such a collection 

 wduld certainly be a moft acceptable offering to the public, 



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