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Mr Blair has lately escaped from a very dangerous disease
and as there is a little doubt that it was brought on by circum¬
stances in his manner of living so the same causes repeated may
have the same effects and it is of the utmost consequence for Mr
Blair to gaurd against them for the time to come -- We are
clearly of opinion that the following rules ought to be strictly observed.

1. He should be very regular in his times of eating & sleeping
Long fasting & sitting up later than usual & every such inequality
is liable to hurt him

2. For Breakfast he may take bread & milk water gruel
Cocoa tea & weak chocolate or Tea made of any plants of home
growth as Balm, Sage, Rosemary, Wild Thyme, or Valerian
Roots, but Indian tea or Coffee are not proper for him -- With
any kind of tea he takes he may take Bread & butter, but it
should by dry toast & cold butter & by no means buttered toast -

To his dry toast he may but honey, Currant Jelly or Marma¬
lade but there is some hazard in these sweets, and he should
take them cautiously and sparingly.

At dinner he may take a bit of plain meat, avoiding
only Pork or Bacon or other very fat meat and he may also take
of any light fish avoiding all the heavier kinds; but neither of
flesh or fish meat must he take ever make a full meal of but fill up
the greatest part of it with Broth, pudding, or vegetables -- We
do not insist upon abstaining altogether from animal food but
we are of opinion that for several years to come the less animal food
he takes his animal food health will be most secure. -- When
he does take animal food he must avoid all heavy sauces and all
hot ocasioning spiceries -- Much Eggs as in omlets are improper
and cheese of every kind except in very small quantity is also so.

4. At supper Mr Blair must not take any kind of
animal food not or even an Egg - It should be of some kind of
vegetable food or Milk and Grain that is Milk with Bread
Rice, Barley, Sago or even oatmeal porridge or sowers

5. For ordinary drink he must take water or if dis¬
posed to costiveness, small beer, but in strong drink he must use
the utmost caution -- Spirits in any shape or [however?] {illeg}
he must not taste and Malt liquor of any kind above the strength
of small beer we think equaly improper - A little Wine he
may take but a little only of the lightest & coolest kinds
Claret or Rhenish are the safest, and he may take but a
go the lenght of a Gill of these at a meal but no farther
When these are not at hand he may take a little Lisbon,
Madeira, [Mountain?] Sherry largely diluted with water, but
Madeira Red Port & other such strongly bodied wines are almost
as bad as spirits

6. Nothing is more proper for Mr Blair than being much
in the fresh air and all kind of moderate Exercise is good for him
but all violent Exercise to any degree of lasting or fatiguing
him is very bad. A moderate attention to business will be
usefull but all anxious and intense application will be
hurtfull --

7. If he finds to any disposition to costiveness he must
obviate it by diet or medicine for if it is neglected it may
do much harm