FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH. BEING THE Result of many Years Practice. By J. FORTHERGELL. THE SIXTH EDITION, With the following Additions, 1. Above Two Hundred of the most approved Receipts» 2. Dr. JURIN's Account of the Effects of Soap-Lye, 3. The Hiftory of Mrs. STEPHENS's Medicines, and 4. The Prefent New Method of Inoculation, the LONDON: Printed for J. PRIDDEN, at the Feathers, N° 100. in Fleet-Street, 22 SECT ECT. I. Of the different Periods of human Life, viz. Infancy, Youth, Manhood, and old Age. page 13 SECT. II. Of the fix Inftruments of Life; or Rules of Health proper to be obferved with refpect to Air, Aliment, Exercife, Reft, Sleep and Wakefulness; Repletion and Evacuation, the Paffions and Affections of the Mind, &c. 26 SECT. III. Of the different Temperaments of the human Body, viz. the Choleric, the Melancholic, the Phlegmatic, and the Sanguine; with Rules of Health for each SECT. IV. Of the Circulation of the Blood Rules for the healthy and robust 46 50 54 SECT. VI. 56 SECT. VII. SECT. VIII. Rules for the delicate and infirm 57 58 SECT. IX. Of Concubinage SECT. X. Of Conftitutions SECT. XI. Of the habitual Infirmities of different Parts of the Body SECT. XII. Of unexpected Incidents SECT. XIII. Of thofe whofe Time is not in - 60 61 63 64 SECT. XV. Several judicious Obfervations ex tracted from Plutarch SECT. XVI. Of Inoculation SECT. XVII. The Conclufion 69 74 79 SECT. XVIII. Receipts for the Cure of moft Disorders incident to Mankind alphabetically 82 Dr. JAMES JURIN's Account of the Effects of Soap-Lye, taken internally for the Stone;; written by himself Friers Balfam 116 133 Tincture of Rhubarb An Elixir against the Venereal Disease 136 136. 137 137 An Extract from the most celebrated Authors that have wrote on Inoculation, the Small-Pox; and alfo the beft Method in the natural way 137 RULES |