Orators have disorders peculiar to themselves, which are of a very grievous nature: for however reading aloud may be of service to the lungs, vehement declamation is hurtful: and how often do preachers or lawyers pass whole days and nights in their studies, when the lungs, unequal to the efforts of speaking, are severely injur’d. How much more happy are those pastors of the church, who cultivate learning, but are kept from their studies by other avocations, being in this respect equally privileg’d with the physicians, whom the health of their fellow-creatures does not suffer to impair their own health by study. Happy likewise are all those whom the nature of their business calls off from study; for though they are not thereby exempted from the labours of the mind, the change of their employments is however a great consolation to them. But unhappy are those preachers, who, being exempt from other ecclesiastical functions, live only to study, and compose eloquent discourses; unhappy those lawyers, who are entirely taken up with managing and pleading causes; for their health is insensibly impaired by the life they lead, their throat, wind-pipe, and lungs, are irritated, heated, and inflamed; hence proceed catarrhs, hoarseness, a broken voice, spitting of blood, a cough, a fever, great weakness, and at last a consumption; and, whilst they give light to others, they are extinguished like the snuff of a candle, unless they take care of themselves. This is what CICERO did, who, being told that he was beginning to be consumptive, avoided pleading for two years, by the advice of his physicians; in which time he recovered his strength and health, which had been greatly impaired[35]. These, worthy auditors, are most of the disorders that are occasioned by too great an attachment to study, or a continued application of the mind to any object whatever: nor are we to imagine that all undergo the same sufferings; much variety is here occasioned by the various constitutions of men, by their different ages, and the diversity of their external circumstances. There are few or no bodies but what have some weak parts, which suffer the first attacks of every disorder. He whose stomach is naturally weak, or who has rendered it so by living in a manner not suited to his constitution, will first complain of pains in the ventricle, whilst the nerves, which he received strong in a weak body, are still in a good state. On the other hand, he who is troubled with weak nerves, but has a good stomach, will long suffer all sorts of nervous disorders, the digestion remaining unhurt.