[41] _De methodo_, _No. 6_: There is likewise a remarkable passage in MOSES MAIMONIDES, one of the most ancient of the Arabian physicians. As life and health, says he, contribute greatly to the worship and knowledge of God; but a man in an ill state of health is unable to contemplate the works of God as he should do; a man ought to take particular care to avoid whatever is hurtful to his body, and should endeavour to procure whatever contributes to keep the body in health and strengthen it. _De sanit. tuend. init._ [42] It must be acknowledged, that a man of learning, indefatigable in his studies, if he observes an exact regimen, innocent and moderate, will find the disadvantages attending his way of life more supportable than another. FELICI _dissertazioni_, p. 203. [43] _Prælect. in instit._ § 1036, tom. VII. p. 337. [44] Many plants fit for use, and perhaps most such, and many others, by means of an easy art, give out a great quantity of excellent sugar, not much inferior to that of sugar-canes. Eight ounces of the fresh juice of the skirret yield an ounce of the best sugar. MARGRAFF _Mem. de l’Acad. de Berlin_. [45] Many phænomena prove this plethora; and it is evinced by a simple observation, and one that occurs daily, _viz._ by those convulsions of the lower jaw-bone which cause a collision of the teeth in sleep, and that more strongly in boys when they have eat a hearty supper. [46] It was justly observed by THEOPHRASTUS, that to eat much, and to live upon flesh, deprives men of the use of their reason, blunts the faculties of their minds, and renders them dull and stupid. [47] BOERHAAVE _prælect._ tom. VII. p. 340. [48] The goddess, says PLATO, chose a place which was to give birth to the wisest men. _Init. Timæi._ And do not forget this with regard to places, that they are of great consequence in giving birth to men of superior genius, or the reverse. _De leg._ lib. 5. [49] By the excessive heat, which is not so much as allayed by an Etesian gale, I have entirely lost the power of philosophising, and am deterred from writing. LANCISI _ad_ COCCHI, p. 47. [50] _Qui ita ut vestitus calceatusque erat, retectis pedibus, paulisper conquiescebat opposita ad oculos manu._ SUETONIUS _in vit. C. O. Aug._ cap. 82. I enlarged upon the ill consequences of sleeping after dinner, in an epistle which I inscribed a few years ago to the illustrious HALLER. [51] _Adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium prebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur._ CICERO _Oratione pro Archiâ_. [52] QUINTILIANUS _de Instit. Orator, lib. i. cap. i._ FINIS. MEDICAL BOOKS printed for E. and C. DILLY, in the Poultry, London.