Note 1 — ON THE DISEASES OF Literary and Sedentary Persons.

Now let those come to themselves who with difficulty admit, that the aliments are capable of rendering some more temperate, others more dissolute, some incontinent, some frugal, confident, timorous, mild, modest, or quarrelsome; let them come to me and hear what it would be proper for them to eat, and what to drink. They will find from hence a great assistance in moral philosophy; they will likewise find from hence a great accession to their intellectual faculties; they will become more ingenious, have better memories, and be more studious and wise. For besides the proper sort of food and liquors, I will instruct them in the nature of air and climates, and point out to them what countries they should chuse to reside in, what they should avoid. The book which proves that manners are influenc’d by bodily constitutions, Cap. 9ᵒ. Charterius, t. 5. p. 457. Observations of the like nature are to be found in Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Plato.