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CHAPTER 1
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I entreat you to write down your own case,--symptoms, and habits of life,--and then consider your case as that of a stranger; and I put it to you, whether common sense would not order you to take more regular exercise and work your brain less.

(N.B.Take a cold bath and walk before breakfast.) I am certain in the long run you would not lose time.

Till you have a thoroughly bad stomach, you will not know the really great evil of it, morally, physically, and every way.

Do reflect and act resolutely.
Remember your troubled heart-action formerly plainly told how your constitution was tried.

But I will say no more--excepting that a man is mad to risk health, on which everything, including his children's inherited health, depends.


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