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; JUST PUBLISHED. Price 2s. 6d.; by post, 3s. 6d. So 1 of a Series of Works, each Complete in itself. BT Dr. L. L. SMITH. ON THE MEANS OF PROLONGING LIFE AND AVOIDING DISEASES. CONTENTS. . . Chapter t. Causes of disease. —Intemperance in this colony ; I action of a “ nobbier” on th,e liver, pecnliaiit) of this climate, difference between functional and structural derangement of organs, instances of longevity, death I at the’age of 370 years, Nature’s means of repelling I diseases, imperfect nourishment, diet with children, “ lollies, ” Si c.; infant deaths in the colony. Impure air—“ Choke-damp” amongst our diggers; foul air amongst shopmen, printers,, &c. Over exertion— Tleenan, the prize-fighter; continued wakefulness, anxiety, quartz mining speculators. Want of exercise Brahmins of India, accumulations of fat. Climate of colony—Long continued heat effects on muscles, the heart, liver, bile, dysentery, diarrhoea. Effects of cold Infant mortality during’our winter, effects on the aged. Congestion, fec.-rHinls. to mothers as regards dress. Spirit drinking—The stomachs of habitual drunkards. Hypochondriacs, depression of mind, maladies, imaginaries, faifh,' action of the mind on diseases and their cure.' Electro biology, mesmerism* defective cleanliness, perspiration. . The Skin Enamelling—Madame Rachael. Ventilation—Dr. Arnold; The Times ; hint for.ventilation on simple principle. Diseased Food—Pleuro-pneumonia, meat, poisonous fish, sausages; j parasitic mutton, mealy pork, &c. Drainage—The Yarra ; Dr, Farre on sanitary mea-, sures. Chapter 11. Nature of Disease—Exemplification, tracing “a cold” to “consumption”,; quantity of perspiration eliminated, sympathy of kidneys and other organs with skin. Derangement of digestive organs—Tracing the progress of food till it becomes part of the animal ; physiology and pathology of digestion ; chyme, chyle, tobacco, Americans, gastric diseases, mental emotions, and their influence on the stomach ; bolting food ; ■ a word to our Collins-srreet merchants and , city men ; the serpent at |the Zoological Gardens ;, inadequate mastication ; action offluids on the stomach ; warm tea, &c. ; improperly cooked food ; different styles of 'Cooking; rules for eating ; digesting ; Dr. Mandeville, Sir F. Burdett, the London Alderman, flatulency, acids, heartburn ; excess of food, its effects, and deficiency of food ; derangement of liver, &c.; gymnastic exercises ; injurious, effects of cricket, a warning : continued wakefulness. Diseases of the brain, how engendered ; frequency in this, colony ; giving prizes at our schools ; excessive evacuations ; their action on the brain.; grief;. Her Majesty ; the ploughboy ; the Americans ; the silent prison system ; Ernest Jones, the Chartist; Vernon; Pentridge ; influence of the mind ; Dr. Beddoes.. Insanity—symptoms ; how to discover it ; how to promptly remedy it ; incipient insanity ; treatment easy in early stage. Chapter 111. Means of avoiding. Diseases —Laws which govern health, importance of diet, quality; Italian, French, and Englishmen’s diet; Garrick, Macready, Wellington; report of health of navy; quantity; Dr. Abercrombie ; indigestjon, over-feeding, its effects ; the stomach-pump ; laws concerning feeding ; _the_ Laplander, Sir Walter Scott, Canaro, Stilites, Hilario, Dr. Spark, the sagacious Irishman, case of the English miller. Dr. Robertson, tojours perdrix; starvation; digestibility and indigestibility of food; different kinds of food, and digestibility of same; table showing length of time of digestion of the different, articles of food usually consumed, ami mode , of preparation; fa'. The culinary art—a hint to cooks, Dr. Chambers, cooking and cooks, high estimation in which they ha.ve been and are held; France, Rome, Caremh, George the Fourth, Emperors of Prussia and Austria, Baron Rothschild,| Mark Antony, Sir Henry Halford. List of different indigestible kinds of food; digestibility of animal in contradistinction to vegetable food,paralysis of stomach, nutritious and innutritions food; portable soups, inhabitants. of Africa, Asia, North America, aborigines, race-horses, different kinds of nutritious food, list of them and quantity of nutriment contained in each shown. Clothing—stays, the Medicean Venus, tight-lacing, crinoline, diseases engendered by it. Dr. Lankester, mothers; culpable manner in which they dress their children; mackintosh coverings, woollen coverings, sun-stroke, head coverings. Light—its influence on health and disease, “etiolation,’’ Mr. Bagshaw Ward, Commission on the State of Towns Report, Dupuytien, Sir James Wylie, experiments of Dr. Edwards, Free ventilation—Melbourne lodginghouses, our inspector, sanitary condition of Adelaide, Hobart Town, Melbourne. Df. Southwood Smith’s opinion. Drainage—stagnant water, miasmata, the floods, contagion; infection. Quarantine laws, the laie Emperor of Russia, black vomit, itch, syphilis, etc., contagion, inoculation, small-pox, measles, hooping cough, typhus, means of avoiding infection, rules for bathing, swimming, want of sleep, infants; the nervous system, palpitation ,of the heart, the Turkish bath, aerated bread. ‘ .v i ! . Sold by all Booksellers, and direct from the Author Melbourne.;, ... - £ Price, 2s. 6d. H. T. Dwight, publisher, and all Booksellers; or direct from the Author. 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