Excerpt from A Catechism of Medicine, or Golden Rules for the Preservation of Health and the Attainment of Long Life Coinmding with that wise maxim, which teaches us that prevention is better than cure, the means of presermng health is the principal theme of the following pages; and, by an attention to the rules laid down, much may be done to ward 03' those maladies to which the human frame is subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.