The Friend to Health

by Anonymous

The

Friend to Health,

being a selection of

valuable truths

relating to the

preservation of health,

from the works of

Thatcher, Franklin, Thompson, Salzmann, &c.

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Boston:
Marsh and Capen—362 Washington Street.

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Bowen and Cushing, Printers.
1826.

District of Massachusetts to wit.

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of August, A. D. 1826, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Marsh & Capen of the said District, have deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book the Right whereof they claim as Proprictors in the words following, to wit:

"The Friend to Health, being a selection of Valuable Truths relating to the Preservation of Health, from the works of Thatcher, Franklin, Thompson, Salzmann, &c."

In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

INDEX,

PAGE.
Preface		3
Of Air, or Atmosphere		5
Of Insensible Perspiration		19
Of Food and Drink		24
Exercise		49
Sleep		56
Cleanliness		62
Clothing		63
Of the means of preserving Health, and of obtaining Longevity		75
On Bathing and Swimming		84
Glossary		102