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JUST PUBLISHED. - . Price ss: post, %s;6&. " v \i No 1 of a Series of Works, each Complete in itse¥. .-■■■■ :.bt . Dk L L. SMITH. Ov THF MEANS OF PROLONGING „ TIFE AND AVOIDING DISEASES. / • contents. v CHARTER T. Causes of discase.-latetnperance in tha colony ; action of a "nobbier" on die liver, peculiarity of tki, clim-te difference between functional and stractuial derangement of instances of, longevity, death ; at the age of 370' years, -Nature's means-of repelling diseases?imnorfect, nourishment, idiet■...with chilaren,- ; "lollies," &c.";' infant deaths in-the colony.; ; Irnpur.e ah-—" Choke-danip""amongst oar diggers : foul, air I amongst shopmen/ printers/ &c. : Over exertionHeenan, the .prize-fighter; ■■ continued -rakefulness, anxiety, quartz mining-speculators. ~-\\a rit of exercise —Brahmins of India, acv,umulntion3.of fat. Climate of colony—Long continued heat "effects on muscles, the heart, liver, bile/dyscntery/diarr'acea. Effects of co ld—lnfant mortality during our winter, effects on the aged.: Congestion, ■■&c.—Hinis to.mothers, as regards dress. Spirit .drinking—The stomachs of habitual drunkards. Hypochondriacs, depression of mind, maladies, irhaginaries, faith; action of the mind on diseases and their cure. ■ Electro -biology, mesmerism, defective cleanliness, perspiration. The Skin Enamel-: Hag—Madame Tiachael. Ventilation—Dr. Arnold ; The Times ; hint for ventilation; on simple principle. Diseased Food—Pleuro-pneumonia,' "meat, poisonous fish, sausages, parasitic mutton, mealy pork, &c. Drainage—The Yarra ; Dr.; Farre on sanitary, measures. !.. &;';-v5 ' '■''■ '''' : CIIAPTHK. 11. .'■,'' I Nature of Disease—Exemplification, tracing a

cold" 'to "consumption" ; quantity of perspirc eliminated, sympathyof kidneys and other organs witu , skin. Derangement" of digestive organs— Tracing the progress of food till it becomes.part oi the animal; | physiology and pathology' of digestion ; ciiyme, ciiyle, j tobacco, Americans, gastric d ; -"'"=""- mntinns. and their influence on the sto word to our Collins-street merchants and city, men,;; the serpent at jthe Zoological Gardens; Inadequate mastication ; action of fluids on the stomach; warm tea &c. ;' improperly cooked food ■; different of cooking; rules for eating ; digesting; Dr. Mane.eTille, Sir F. Bnrdeit, the London Alderman, flataiency, acids, heartburn ; .excess of food, its effects,, and de-, ficiencyoffood.; derangement of liver, &c. j 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 ; Pentndge ; 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 Disease.—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 ; indigestion, over-feeding, its effects ;_ tne stomach-pump ; laws concerning feeding; the Laplander, S'ir Walter Scott, Canaro, Stilites, Hilario, Dr. Spark, the sagacious Irishman, case of the B"" liaK miller, Dr. Robertson, tofours perdrix;. st'arvt...... , 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 eonsu: The culinary art—a hint to cooks, Dr. Chambers, cooking and cooks, high estimation in whieh'they have been and are held; France, Home, Gareme, George the Fourth, Emperors of Prussia and Austria, Baron Bothschild,! Mark Antony, Sir Henry Halford. List of different indigestible kinds of food; digestibility .of. animal in contradistinction to vegetable food,paralvsis of stomach, nutritious and innutritious 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 th'eir children; mackintosh coveringsv woollen coverings, sun-stroke, head- coverings. Light—its influence on health and disease, '.'etiolation," Mr. Bagshaw Ward, Commission on-the State of Towns Report, .-Dupriytien, Sir James Wylie, experiments of■:■ Dr. Edwards, Free ventilation—Melbourne lodginghouses, our inspector, sanitary condition of Adelaide, Hobart Town, Melbourne.. " Dr. Sonthwood Smith's opinion. ; Dramage—stagnant ; water, miasmata, the floods, contagion; infection. Quarantine laws, the la*e 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.

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