Diseases > Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life

INTRODUCTION.
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fcarce a berry, or a mufliroom, can
efcape him.
Ir is impoffible to lay down any de¬
terminate rule for temperance, becaufe
what is luxury in one may be temperance
in another ; but there are few that have
lived any time in the world, who are not
judges of their own conftitutions, fo fac
as to know what kinds and what propor¬
tions of food do agree bed with them.
Were I to confider my readers as my pa¬
tients, and to prefcribe fuch a kind of
temperance as is accommodated to all
perfons, and fuch as is particularly fuit-
able to our climate and way of living, I
would copy the following rules of a very-
eminent phyfician “ Make your whole
<< repaft out of one difli If you indulge
“ in a fecond, avoid drinking any thing
“ ftrong till you have finilhed your meal;
(t at the fame time abflain from all feu*
«< ces, or at lead from fuch as are not
the mod plain and fimple.” A man
could not be well guilty of gluttony, if