The air we breathe is of great consequence to our health. Those who have been long abroad in easterly or northerly winds should drink some warm pepper tea on going to bed, or a draught of toast and water. Tender people should have those who lie with them, or are much about them, sound, sweet, and healthy. Everyone that would preserve health should be as clean and sweet as possible in their houses, clothes, and furniture. All pickled, or smoked, or salted food, and all high seasoned, are unwholesome.
Nothing conduces more to health than abstinence and plain food, with due labor.
For studious persons, about eight ounces of animal food, and twelve of vegetable, in twenty hours, is sufficient. Strong, and more especially, spirituous liquors, are a certain, though slow poison. Experience shows there is very seldom any danger in leaving them off all at once. Strong liquors do not prevent the mischiefs of a surfeit, or carry it off so safely as water. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful to persons who have weak nerves.