Parr are remarkable for good sense ; namely, " keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm by exercise ; rise early, and go soon to bed ; and if you are inclined to get fat, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut. The Monthly Gazette of Health - Page 6531830Full view - About this book
| Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 pages
...recommended are remarkable for good sense. His advice was, " Keep your head cool by tempe«« ranee ; your feet warm by exercise ; rise early, and go "...fat, keep *« your eyes open and your mouth shut." In other words, sleep little, and be moderate in diet j an excellent advice, more especially to those... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - 1818 - 684 pages
...observe; and those which it is said old Parr recommended, are remarkable for good sense. His advice was, " Keep your head cool by temperance , your feet " warm...to get fat, keep " your eyes open, and your mouth shutf." In other words, sleep moderately, and be abstemious in diet; an excellent advice, more especially... | |
| Thomas John Graham, Physician - 1829 - 378 pages
...Micbaelstone, lived to the great age of!27. plied, " I did penance when I was an hundred years old." His chief rules for longevity are well known — " Keep your...words, " Be moderate both in your sleep and diet." The celebrated Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, drew up an account of the... | |
| John Abernethy - 1829 - 32 pages
...Parr's maxims of health were, to keep jour head cool by temperance, your feet warm by exercise ; to rise early, and go soon to bed ; and if you are inclined to get fat, to keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, or, be moderate in your sleep and diet. The diet of Jenkins... | |
| 1830 - 410 pages
...moderation in regard to diet, drink, &c. Old Parr, who lived until the age of 152 years, gave this advice, " Keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm...get fat, keep your eyes open, and your mouth shut.-" The wdl known epitaph of the Italian nobleman may serve as a beacon against overweening anxiety about... | |
| 1852 - 448 pages
...never swallowed one of them, and yet lived to the unprecedented age of 152 years, gave this advice : " Keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm...get fat, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut." Shakespeare's hint on this subject, Act. 2d, scene 3d, is not inappropriate : " Though I look old yet... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 372 pages
...; and those which it is said were recommended by Old Parr are remarkable for good sense ; namely, " keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm...get fat, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut." In other words, sleep moderately, and be abstemious in diet; —excellent admonitions, more especially... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 730 pages
...those which it is said were recommended by Old Parr are remarkable for good sense ; namely — 3415. "Keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm...get fat, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut." 3416. In other words, sleep moderately, and be abstemious in diet; — excellent admonitions, more... | |
| Health - 1858 - 374 pages
...old Parr attained the a^'e of one hundred and fifty-two years. His advice is worth remembering : " Keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm...get fat, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut." Cardinal de Sails, who died in 1785, after reaching his hundred and tenth year, when asked what system... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 454 pages
...by Old Parr are remarkable for good sense ; namely, " keeo your head cool by temperance, your teet warm by exercise ; rise early, and go soon to bed ; and if you are inclined to get fat, keep yonr eyes open and your mouth shut." In other .vords, sleep moderately, and be abstemious in diet ;... | |
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