The old man's guide to health and longer life
- Subtitle
- With rules for diet, exercise, and physic; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one
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1. THE OLD MAN’s GUIDE2. CHAP. I. How a person in Years is to know he is in Health.3. CHAP. II. The means to preserve a healthful state in old age.4. CHAP. III. Of the fittest diet for persons in years.5. CHAP. IV. Of the foods persons in years should avoid.6. CHAP. V. Of air for elderly persons.7. CHAP. VI. Of exercise for old men.8. CHAP. VII. Of succedaneums for exercise.9. CHAP. VIII. Of a regulation of temper; and of the passions.10. CHAP. IX. Of sleep for old men.11. CHAP. X. Of the particular faults in old mens constitutions.12. CHAP. XI. Of a fulness of blood.13. CHAP. XII. Of wasting and decay.14. CHAP. XIII. Against sharp humours.15. CHAP. XIV. Of pains and inflammations.16. CHAP. XV. Of fluxes.17. CHAP. XVI. Of the gravel and stone.18. CHAP. XVII. Of weakness.19. CHAP. XVIII. Of an asthma.20. ARTICLES considered in this Pamphlet.