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odness of your Constitution which has carried you so far: but that when you are arrived to this period, you go down the hill apace-and it is necessary for you to change your course of life, especially with regard to the quantity and quality of your diet-because it is on that, the health and lengt

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-as it is the absolute covenant, by the most attentive and implicit observance of which we can only hope to hold our lea

"-for the artificial pleasures of the Palate, it may be, and the Bon Vivant cultivates th

and dressing food so as to render it easily soluble-if the secret of

d to Dr. Cheyne, about our 35th year,) the elasticity of the Animal System imperceptibly diminishes,-our Senses become less susceptible, and are eve

easily deranged, and with more difficulty brought into adjustment again; till at length the vital power being diminished, and the organs deteriorated,-Nourishment

lecting that the pulsation of the Heart, and the motion of the Blood con

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