Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1343

JOHN COLLINS WARREN (1778-1856) Physical education and the preservation of health. William D. Ticknor 1846 90 pp. 16.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1340

Warren first delivered the contents of this small tract as an address at a meeting of the American Institute in August of 1830. Its popularity was so great that the author made some additions to the text in order to more fully illustrate his most important principles and had it published. Warren stressed the value and importance of exercise, a sound diet, and healthful habits for individuals of all ages. He had useful advice for physicians too: ". . . a bad constitution in a professor of the healing art, keeps him at variance with all his duties. How can he heal others, in whom the springs of health act feebly and imperfectly?" (p. 8). His observations on the use of tobacco are surprisingly modern especially when he states that "No one, I suppose, will understand, that I intend to say, that tobacco is a specific for the production of cancer" (p. 85).

Gift of Robert D. Gauchat