any hitherto printed; and notwithstanding former
lifts of the fame fort, to which PLOUCQUET and
other German authors have fo laboriously contri-
buted, yet it was attended with a good deal of
trouble, to arrange the whole in its present shape,
diftinguishing the British from Foreign publica-

tions.

The moft difficult part of the whole was, to deter-
mine in what manner to print, the variety of private
communications tranfmitted to the author, on the
fubjects of his inquiry. Some of them perhaps may
be confidered diffufe, but the writers of thofe pa-
pers might have complained, were mere abftracts of
them given, the first time they were published, though
afterwards undoubtedly greater liberties might be
taken with them. On the whole, however, the Au-
thor trufts, that these communications, will be found
an important addition, to the information already
collected, regarding the means of preserving health,
and attaining longevity; and not the lefs valuable,
that they come from a great variety of perfons,
and are in general the result of their own obfer-
vations and experience.

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

In

* It may be proper here to make one obfervation. 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 "wholefome food; but he does not fay, 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 physi"cian orders to a person whose constitution 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 "perfon is taken ill, and the phyfician thinks it proper, he "6 may oblige the person to take what is prescribed, notwith"ftanding any religious fcruples.' [a] 3

that the information regarding that branch of the inquiry, might be as complete as poffible, he has given a translation 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 transmitted 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 smoking Cigarrs; with Obfervations on the Use 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.

any hitherto printed; and notwithstanding former lifts of the fame fort, to which PLOUCQUET and other German authors have fo laboriously contributed, yet it was attended with a good deal of trouble, to arrange the whole in its present shape, distinguishing the British from Foreign publica

tions.

The moft difficult part of the whole was, to determine in what manner to print, the variety of private communications tranfmitted to the author, on the fubjects of his inquiry. Some of them perhaps may be confidered diffuse, but the writers of those papers might have complained, were mere abftracts of them given, the first time they were published, though afterwards undoubtedly greater liberties might be taken with them. On the whole, however, the Author trufts, that these communications, will be found an important addition, to the information already collected, regarding the means of preferving health, and attaining longevity; and not the lefs valuable, that they come from a great variety of perfons, and are in general the refult of their own obfervations and experience.

Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, }

12th January 1807..

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