THE MOUNTAIN. 



in other words, the inseparability of the parts of one great 

 art, the indivisibility of one great science into major or 

 minor, subservient or ancillary departments, and the im- 

 possibility of one existing without the other. 



PART FIRST. CHAP. I. State of the science of prolonging life 

 among the ancients ; state in middle ages, and on down to Mesmer. 



CHAP. II. Of the vital powers ; whole problem of life, its essen- 

 tial nature, laws, etc. 



CHAP. III. Duration of life of plants ; the laws thereof, etc. etc. 



CHAP. IV. Duration in animal world ; general view, etc. 



CHAP. V. Duration of life of man; general recitation of the facts 

 thereof, etc. 



CHAP. VI. Results of above observations ; influence of the world 

 on its life ; states and conditions of inhabitants on the same ; rela- 

 tive duration of; tables of, etc. 



CHAP. VII. Special examination of human life ; definition of 

 operation of; condition of laws, without, within; history of. 



CHAP. VIII. Signs of long life in individuals; dissertation on the 

 organs, their laws, and portrait of a long liver. 



CHAP. IX. Examination of methods of prolonging life ; recita- 

 tion from elixirs down to proper means and modifications of the 

 same, etc. 



PART SECOND. Practical art of prolonging life. 1. MEANS WHICH 



SHORTEN LIFE. 



CHAP. I. Delicate nursing and treatment in infancy. 



CHAP. II Physical excess in youth. 



CHAP. III. Overstrained exertion of the mental faculties. 



CHAP. IV. Diseases; injudicious manner of treating them; sud- 

 den kinds of death ; propensity to self-murder. 



CHAP. V. Impure arr; men living together in large cities. 



CHAP. VI. Intemperance in eating and drinking; refined cookery ; 

 spirituous liquors. 



CHAP. VII. Passions and dispositions of mind which shorten life; 

 peevishness ; too much occupation and business. 



CHAP. VIII. The fear of death. 



CHAP. IX. Idleness ; inactivity ; languor. 



CHAP. X. Overstrained power of the imagination ; imaginary dis- 

 eases ; sensibility. 



CHAP. XI. Poisons, physical as well as infectious. 



CHAP. XII. Old age ; premature engrafting of it on youth. 



