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For ----- Livingston of Parkhall ¹ Esq.

From all I can observe Mr Liv.
has no disease & the late affection of his Ancles
I consider as an accident that can have no consequence
But even from that accident I percieve some delicacy
of constitution which may require attention & for that
purpose I now offer a few advices with regard to
Mr Livin.s manner of living.

His diet on one hand should not be too low
& on the other should not be too full nor heavy.
Every day at dinner he should take a bit of meat
as beef mutton veal lamb white fowl or rabbit
avoiding Pork bacon & water fowl, avoiding
also heavy sauces & every thing fried or baked.
He may frequently take a bit of white fish boiled
but should avoid or take sparingly of the heavier
kinds as salmon or herring. Of one or other of
the meats above mentioned he should take a
part every day but should never make a full
meal of animal food but but should make it up with
a moderate quantity of broth with some sort of pudding
or pancake & with some vegetables. Eggs & cheese

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should be taken very sparingly & salted meats
not at all. Along with his meat he may take a little
mustard but of spiceries or pickles hardly any.

His ordinary drink may be wine & water &
sometimes a little good small beer but any other kind
of malt liquor is improper. Every day at dinner
he should take a few glasses of wine or punch
but it should be a few only & if a few only the wine may
be of any kind he likes best but a few glasses of
old Hock or ↑good↑ Rhenish would be particularly pro¬
per tho' it is by no means necessary that he
should be confined to this which is very often ill to be
got.

At breakfast he may take bread & butter with a
dish of Bohea or Green Tea but it should be
weak & taken very cool & it will be still better
for him to take Cocoa Tea or a weak Choco¬
late.

For supper he may take any kind of
milk meat he likes best.

He should always go early to be & not lye
too long abed in the morning.

Every morning he should have his feet
ancles & legs gently rubbed with a piece of warm
flannel. When his feet require it they may be
washed with warm water but he should not otherwise

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practice any bathing

Nothing is more necessary for Mr L. than
moderate exercise taken very frequently. When
the weather allows he should be very much in
the fresh air walking gently but this can hardly
be enough & he should be frequently on
horseback or in a carriage for two or three
hours in a forenoon. In one or other of the
kinds of exercise he should be very diligent
whenever the weather allows of it, from this time
to November forward till the month of November but
during. the winter months he may more safely
keep within doors.

At all times he should be warmly cloathed
& particularly in his feet & legs. He should
by no means make any change of his cloa¬
thing in following the course of the seasons.