How to Live Long

It is intended also in the same way to communicate some generally accepted principles in their application to the preservation of health, and the cure of disease without medicine, in short phrase, few words, and disconnected sentences; to be taken up and laid down at a moment's notice, on steam- ship, tramway, packet, or rail-car, at such odds and ends of time as fall to the lot of travellers and others, which else might not be appropriated so usefully because in this age of restlessness and hurry the care of the health, like the search for religion, is considered one of the things which can be dispensed with, until a more convenient season in the future.

It is hoped that some who would not spend the time to hear a lecture or read a book may be enticed to peruse a paragragh now and then in reference to the care of the body, which, in being put into practice, may have an important bearing in the prolongation of life ; thus teaching the reader; 
 
"How to Live Long."