HE ALT H. | 
proper saiiiiens on flandiag, and the flower this a 
18 pe the better ; the perfpiration from the fli ree and 
meus but not amounting to. {weating, — 
werful caufes. concur to excite it; and he internal fecre- 
ae equally free and reg ular, and neither too, copious ar teo 
anty. *¢.Sani deaique hominis elt, venerem —— et ad 
eam valere, et fobolem ive are 
"Phere are fom 
it 
{charge of the catamenia, without pain, neither too 
nor in too {mall quantity ;—a regular period of 
at the proper period, 
» for the appre of the- 
offs spr ‘ia 
- Good health, moreover, in both fexes, confilts not only 
in the proper performance of the functions, mental and cor- 
poreal, when no impediment is applied ; but alfo, ina tena- 
city, as it were, of this regularity, and in an accommoda- 
tion of the habit to many variations in the weather and ~ 
fons, the diet, and mode of life ; andthus, in bearing wit 
hey ge canfes of difeafe, which Sout Stace 
dettro weaker or lefs health Deg Or at leott ea 
‘Phe health of the 
changes occur in the animal econ y 
pe life ; fo that one man f{carcely differs fo much.from 
ers, of the fame age with himfelf, as he ffers fro oe 
shod or the internal ftruéture and funGtiions eng wo upon 
h 
them. Whence it x pean that the moft perfect health, 
which firft conduéted the tender infantile frame to its vigour 
and perfeét fuftained the man in that condition, 
étion, and lon 
s by degrees 9 dhininithis the itrength of the fyftem, 
and at* ain wears it ont. Sct ec Confpe&. Med. 
Theoret.) 
“§ Naloontees morimur, fini{que ab origine pendet.”” 
he prefervation, of health, then, muft confift in avoiding j 
Ni hg to the organs of the hody, andall derangements. 
of un¢ 
ctions, which they perform, a lies‘in o} 
all the aes pean ‘to “a 
healthy performance ofits funétions, fuch precaution indeed 
may feem almo 
ave ba Ak 
orders, om their education, profe: 
It is ro tele mor efpecially, that the prefervation of health 
care, and by whom th 
pests, For with thefe perfons fome one funtion or other 
is | Sea meine tas anges and fuch is the 
neétion 
ur, though, when:confidered as applying to the cure of difeal 
rt common, t 
ham 
e-of. medical, = prec _ ’ 
wh, ualities of this vs tipecies! 
— 4 be deemed friv vs.and. ty 
fuperfluous : but fuch contusions are not. 
ecepts of the. fo 
nore a of the phyfician are not.to be x ae with im-. ]g 
while it contributes.to perfect ion, docs not exhauft the — 
excitability of the ftomach, ant the fyftem at ES ae its 
imulus; nor produce. thofe derangements of the r and 
other vifcera,. with which ekocts. gout, dropfy, pa we 
madnefs, and numerous other . po iain ¥ connected. (See 
Dist and DauNnKeNNzEss.) > temperance is itfe'f 
the a of ayoidi ing the eam “oe har the difeafes to whick 
the organs and funétions of the human frame are liable. And 
excrcile, again, as we have already fully explained, by ex. 
citing a fies circulation.in the maft minute ramifications 
vafeular fyftem, inevery organ of the body, corte 
the more perfect pe erformance of all their refpeCtive funGtions ; 
or, in other words, directly conduces.to the healthful ‘ak. 
tion of the whole frame. _ (See ExercisE.) When, in. addi- 
tion to thefe Beta the influence of cold is guarded 
er ae 
, the differences of climate, &e: 
it geen be left in : reat meafure to individual expe 
rience and obfervation to afcertain the juvantia and Jaedentiay 
as the medical. phrafe is; or, in other words, to acquire a 
knowledge of what is beneficial or injurious to the habit under 
every circumftance. For, in refpeét to the: paicentre? 
health, the individ val “ muft minifter to himfelf : 
man is 
foolor a phyician at forty,”’? when applied i in this fenfe; al 
and drink ; but: they qil] not make:u 
Tei isnot. from ignorance, but. 
~menare inthe: ¢ 
