A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…

SECT. V.

THE Fifth Inconvenience incident to¹ Old-age is, That it is burdened with Distemper and Pain. Thus Asa, 2 King. 15. 23. in the time of his Old-age was diseased in his feet. Then Aches and Diseases take possession of every part. Megrims and Dizziness seize on the Head; Catarrhs; Phthisic and Asthma's on the Lungs; Palsies on the Nerves; Weakness and Pain on the Back and Loins; Gravel and Stone on the Reins and Bladder: The Gout on the Joints; The Hypochondriac Melancholy on the Spleen; The Colic on the Guts; and lastly, a Dropsy or an Hectic, which carry the ⟨p. 159⟩man away. So that an Aged person is² a very Hospital, and Old-age is it self an incurable Disease, and any other added to it makes the case desperate. Some of them indeed speed better than others, but usually if they escape Acute diseases, some Chronic distemper attends them to their Graves.

THE Fifth Inconvenience incident to¹ Old-age is, That it is burdened with Distemper and Pain. Thus Asa, 2 King. 15. 23. in the time of his Old-age was diseased in his feet. Then Aches and Diseases take possession of every part. Megrims and Dizziness seize on the Head; Catarrhs; Ptisick and Astma's on the Lungs; Palsyes on the Nerves; Weakness and Pain on the Back and Loins; Gravell and Stone on the Reins and Bladder: The Gout on the Ioynts; The Hypochondriack Melancholy on the Spleen; The Colick on the Gutts; and lastly, a Dropsy or an Hectick, which carry the ⟨p. 159⟩