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                                THE ART
                     OF INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING
                                 LIFE,
                                   BY
             FOOD, CLOTHES, AIR, EXERCISE, WINE, SLEEP, &c.
                                  AND
                            PEPTIC PRECEPTS,
                              POINTING OUT
                   _AGREEABLE AND EFFECTUAL METHODS_
                         TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE
                              INDIGESTION,
                                 AND TO
                  _REGULATE AND STRENGTHEN THE ACTION_
                                 OF THE
                          STOMACH AND BOWELS.

                 Suaviter in modo, sed fortiter in re.

                                   BY
                   THE AUTHOR OF "THE COOK'S ORACLE,"
                              &c. &c. &c.

                           _SECOND EDITION._

                                LONDON:
                  PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO.
                  AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO., EDINBURGH.

                                 1821.




                                 TO THE
                          NERVOUS AND BILIOUS,
                             THE FOLLOWING
                               TREATISE,
                                 ON THE
                  ART OF MANAGING THOSE TEMPERAMENTS,
                       IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.




CONTENTS.


                                      PAGE

  ART OF INVIGORATING LIFE               1

  Reducing Corpulence                   50

  Sleep                                 65

  Siesta                                94

  Clothes                              103

  Fire                                 113

  Air                                  119

  Exercise                             122

  Wine                                 127

  Peptic Precepts                      156

  Index                                267




       THE NUMBERS _affixed to the various Articles of Food, &c.
            are those referred to in the_ THIRD EDITION _of_

                                  THE
                             COOK'S ORACLE:
                               CONTAINING
                       RECEIPTS FOR PLAIN COOKERY
                                 ON THE
               MOST ECONOMICAL PLAN FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES:

                                  ALSO

               THE ART OF COMPOSING THE MOST SIMPLE, AND
                          MOST HIGHLY FINISHED
             Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Store Sauces,
                        AND FLAVOURING ESSENCES:

                   _The Quantity of each Article is_
                ACCURATELY STATED BY WEIGHT AND MEASURE;
                    _THE WHOLE BEING THE RESULT OF_
                           Actual Experiments
                             INSTITUTED IN
                      THE KITCHEN OF A PHYSICIAN.

                         "Miscuit utile dulce."

                           THE THIRD EDITION,
                  WHICH IS ALMOST ENTIRELY RE-WRITTEN.

                                LONDON:

               PRINTED FOR A. CONSTABLE & Co. EDINBURGH;
                 AND HURST, ROBINSON, & Co. CHEAPSIDE.
        _And sold also by all Booksellers in Town and Country._

                                 1821.




                                THE ART
                                   OF
                      INVIGORATING AND PROLONGING
                                  LIFE
                                   BY
                           Diet and Regimen.


    "The choice and measure of the materials of which our Body is
    composed,--and what we take daily by POUNDS,--is at least of as much
    importance as what we take seldom, and only by _Grains_ and
    _Spoonsful_."--DR. ARBUTHNOT on _Aliment_, pref. p. iii.

The Editor of the following pages had originally an extremely Delicate
Constitution;--and at an early period devoted himself to the study of
Physic, with the hope--of learning how to make the most of his small
stock of Health.

The System he adopted, succeeded, and he is arrived at his forty-third
year, in tolerable good Health; and this without any uncomfortable
abstinence:--his maxim has ever been, "_dum Vivimus, Vivamus_."

He does not mean the Aguish existence of the votary of Fashion--whose
Body is burning from voluptuous intemperance to-day, and freezing in
miserable collapse to-morrow--not extravagantly consuming in a Day, the
animal spirits which Nature intended for the animation of a Week--but
keeping the expense of the machinery of Life within the income of
Health