From Celsus, De medicina 1.2.1, on how to maintain health: "The weak, however, among whom are a large portion of townspeople, and almost all those fond of letters, need greater precaution [than healthy people], so that care may re-establish what the character of their constitution or of their residence or of their study detracts."

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