"At the latter end of _May_ 1744, my weight was above 164 pounds, and the proportion of my Drink to my Meat was considerably greater than before, and had been so for some time. I was then seized with a Paralytic disorder, which obliged me to make an alteration in my diet. In order to settle the proportion of my Drink to my Meat, I considered what others have said concerning this proportion. "According to _Sanctorius_, though he reckons it a disproportion, the drink to the meat in his time, was about 10 to 3 in temperate bodies. CORNARO'S drink to his Meat, was as 7 to 6. Mr. RYE'S, in winter, as 4 to 3. Dr. LINING'S, at a medium 11 to 3. And my drink to my meat 5 to 2. A mean taken from all these makes the Drink to the Meat--about 2 to 1. B. ROBINSON _on Food and Discharges_, p. 34. "At the age of 64, by lessening my food, and increasing the proportion of my meat to my drink, _i. e._ by lessening my drink about a third part, (_i. e._ to 20 ounces) and my meat about a sixth, (_i. e._ 38 ounces) of what they were in 1721, I have freed myself for these two years past from the returns of a _Sore throat_ and _Diarrhœa_,--Disorders I often had, though they were but slight, and never confined me. I have been much more costive than I was before, when I lived more fully, and took more Exercise, and have greatly, for my age, recovered the paralytic weakness I was seized with three years ago. "Hence we gather, that good and constant Health consists in a just quantity of food; and a just proportion of the meat to the drink: and that to be freed from chronical disorders contracted by Intemperance--the quantity of food ought to be lessened; and the proportion of the meat to the drink increased--more or less, according to the greatness of the disorders, p. 61. "I commonly ate four ounces of Bread and Butter, and drank half a pound of a very weak infusion of Green Tea for _Breakfast_. For _Dinner_ I took two ounces of Bread, and the rest Flesh-meat,--Beef, Mutton, Pork, Veal, Hare, Rabbit, Goose, Turkey, Fowl tame and wild, and Fish. I generally chose the strongest meats as fittest, since they agreed well with my stomach, to keep up the power of my body under this great diminution of my food; I seldom took any _Garden stuff_--finding that it commonly lessened perspiration and _increased my weight_.--I drank four ounces of water with my meat and a pound of Claret after I had done eating. At night I ate nothing, but drank 12 ounces of water with a pipe of Tobacco, p. 63. "There is but one Weight, under which a grown body can enjoy the best and most uninterrupted Health. p. 91. That Weight is such as enables the Heart to supply the several parts of the body with just quantities of Blood. p. 100.