Neele sc. 35 Strand. Petratsch Zortan, in the 185 Year of his age, He died on the 5 Jan 172 4. from a Picture formerly belonging to the Percy's Earl of Northumberland and now in the possession of William Besville Esy of Udbeck Street. Sondon ? BEING AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE THE PRACTICABILITY, OF CONDENS- ING THE DIFFERENT ARTS AND SCIENCES, OR ANY PARTICULAR BRANCH THEREOF. BY SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART. VOL. II. Neque enim ulla alia re homines propius ad Deos accedunt, quam salutem EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCH. CONSTABLE & Co.; AND T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, AND J. MURRAY, LONDON, ¡. ADVERTISEMENT TO VOL. II. THIS volume, it is to be hoped, will furnish some proof, that the Author of the Code of Health and Longevity, has paid as much attention as lay in his power, to the important fubjects he undertook to illuftrate. In the first part of this volume, he has endeavoured to give an account of the doctrines of the Ancients regarding Health and Longevity *; and that * It may be proper here to make one obfervation. In p. 165. of this volume, it is mentioned as a fingular circumftance, that Ifaac the Jew, in his Treasure of Health, (Thefaurus Sanitatis), fhould recommend pork as a nourishing and wholesome food. But an intelligent Jew, to whom that remark was accidentally communicated, obferves, "that "fuch a circumstance is not at all to be wondered at. The "author, [Ifaac], recommends pork as a nourishing and "wholesome food; but he does not say, that the Jews may, or ought to eat it, in defiance of the Mofaical law. Be"fides, it has ever been held binding, that whatever a phyfi"cian orders to a person whose conftitution requires it, may "be given him; even pork, lobsters, oysters, &c. For it is a "law laid down by all the Rabbies and learned men among "the Jews, that in case of sickness, whatever is ordered con"ducive to health, must be ftrictly attended to; and if any "person is taken ill, and the phyfician thinks it proper, he "may oblige the person to take what is prescribed, notwith"Atanding any religious fcruples.' that the information regarding that branch of the inquiry, might be as complete as poffible, he has given a tranflation of what BOERHAAVE and HALLER have published regarding it. The Catalogue which then follows *, will probably be found the fulleft and most extenfive of any Since the catalogue was printed, the following additional articles have been tranfmitted to the author, the four latter from Dr BUCHAN, of Percy Street. 1. Waterhouse, [Benjamin, M. D.] Cautions to Young Perfons concerning Health, in a Public Lecture delivered at the clofe of the Medical Courfe in the Chapel at Cambridge. Nov. 20. 1804; containing the General Doctrine of Chronic Diseases; fhewing the Evil Tendency of the Ufe of Tobacco upon Young Perfons; more especially the Pernicious Effects of fmoking Cigarrs; with Obfervations on the Ufe of Ardent and Vinous Spirits in general. 2. Aird, [David] Difputatio Medica Inauguralis de Sanitate in India Occidentali tuenda. Edinburgi, 1805. 3. Maclagan, [David] Difputatio Medica Inauguralis, Quædam, de Sanitate complectens. Edinburgi, 1805. 4. Carr's Medicinal Epiftles, 1 vol. 8vo. 1714. 5. Ofwald's [John] Cry of Nature. 6. The Cafe of John Ferguffon of Argyllshire, who hath lived more than eighteen years on water, whey, and barley water, 7. Long Livers; a curious hiftory of fuch perfons, of both fexes, who have lived feveral ages, and grown young again; with the rare fecret of regimency, and a great many approved and valuable rules to prolong life. By Eugenius Philalethes, F. R. S. London 1722 *. * In Lady Mary Wortley Montague's Letters, there is an account of the Old Woman of Louverre, who lived above 100. |