Note 41 — ON THE DISEASES OF Literary and Sedentary Persons.
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De methodo, No. 6: There is likewise a remarkable passage in Moses Maimonides, one of the most ancient of the Arabian physicians. As life and health, says he, contribute greatly to the worship and knowledge of God; but a man in an ill state of health is unable to contemplate the works of God as he should do; a man ought to take particular care to avoid whatever is hurtful to his body, and should endeavour to procure whatever contributes to keep the body in health and strengthen it. De sanit. tuend. init.