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PART THIRD. MEANS WHICH PROLONG LIFE. 



CHAP. I. Good physical descent. 



CHAP. II. Prudent physical education. 



CHAP. III. Active and laborious youth. 



CHAP. IV. Abstinence from physical love in youth, and too early 

 assumption of the married state. 



CHAP. V. Happy married state. 



CHAP. VI. Sleep. 



CHAP. VII.- Bodily exercise. 



CHAP. VIII. The enjoyment of free air; moderate temperature 

 of warmth. 



CHAP. IX. Rural and country life. 



CHAP. X. Traveling. 



CHAP. XI. Cleanliness and care of the skin. 



CHAP. XII. Proper food ; moderation in eating and drinking ; 

 preservation of the teeth. 



CHAP. XIII. Mental tranquillity ; contentment ; dispositions of 

 mind and employments, which tend to prolong life. 



CHAP. XIV. Reality of character. 



CHAP. XV. Agreeable stimulants of the senses and of sensation 

 moderately used. 



CHAP. XVI. Preventing diseases; judicious treatment of them; 

 proper use of medicine and physicians. 



CHAP. XVII. Relief in cases where one is exposed to the danger 

 of sudden death. 



CHAP. XVIII. Old age; proper treatment of it. 



CHAP. XIX. Cultivation of the mental and bodily powers. 



From this table of contents it would appear that the 

 "Art of Prolonging Life" involves every relationship of 

 man to the world, and thus a recapitulation of the resources 

 and implements of that art would be a schedule or peri- 

 scope of the whole domain of both outward and inward 

 existences. 



Chapters of this department of medical science have been 

 bravely labored out by different writers and observers, and 

 partially finished ; and it appears upon the records of that 

 literature that mere catalogues of the implements of pre- 

 vention, belonging to the domain of Hygiene, fill volumes. 

 Illustrious names are recorded in this department, and the 

 race would do well, in its mad rushing, to pause, and hear 



