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tions made from experience, the circumstances under which 

 this process may be hastened and shortened, or retarded and 

 prolonged, can be discovered. Upon this may be founded 

 dietetic rules and a medical mode of treatment for preserv- 

 ing life; and hence arises a particular science, the MACRO- 

 BIOTIC, or the art of prolonging it, which forms the subject 

 of the present work. 



"This art, however, must not be confounded with the 

 common art of medicine or medical regimen; its objects, 

 means, and boundaries are different. The object of the 

 medical art is health ; that of the macrobiotic, long life. 

 [Long life and health are supposed to be somewhat con- 

 nected ; but it seems here that ' dietetic rules' and a ' medi- 

 cal mode of treatment for preserving life,' 'health,' and the 

 'macrobiotic art,' are 'different,' although the latter ' arise s' 

 from the former !] The means employed in the medical art 

 are regulated according to the present state of the body and 

 its variations ; [case, head and stomach sick from rum and 

 tobacco; one 'means of medical art,' take no more!~\ those 

 of the macrobiotic by general principles. [Case, head 

 and stomach not sick from rum or tobacco ; on the pro- 

 longation of life question, what has the macrobiotic art to 

 say? take rum and tobacco, or take no more? But it 

 seems the 'object, means,' of the two arts are l different" 1 !~\ 

 In the first it is sufficient if one is able to restore that health 

 which has been lost ; [but it is no art of 'prolonging life'!~\ 

 but no person thinks of inquiring whether, by the means 

 used for that purpose, life, upon the whole, will be length- 

 ened or shortened; [every physician does;] and the latter 

 is often the case in many methods employed in medicine. 

 [A play upon crotchets.] The medical art must consider 

 every disease as an evil which cannot be, too soon, expelled ; 

 [as by a blister, sound !] the macrobiotic, on the other hand, 

 shows that many diseases [a blistered surface is not normal 

 but diseased} may be the means of prolonging life. [Sound ! 

 But are the ' medical' and ' macrobiotic' arts so entirely 'dif- 

 ferent'?] The 'medical art,' by corroborative and other 



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