Punch,  58 (1870), 117.

Philosophy for Free Livers

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Nutrition, Philosophy, Health


    Explains some of the principal ideas presented in Caplin 1870. Points out that the follower of the philosophy of rheumatism and gout enunciated in the book 'always walks about a great deal to equalise his circulation, and to work off in vapour the superfluities which a philosophical turn, generally combined with a predilection for good living, is apt to introduce into the bodily system'.



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