An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons

The complaints of the desk-bound, diagnosed two centuries early. The Swiss physician Tissot examines the ailments that afflict scholars, writers, and all who sit and think for a living, and prescribes movement, air, and moderation as the cure. It is uncannily relevant to anyone who spends their days at a screen. A pioneering, humane classic on the price of the sedentary life, and how to pay less of it.