Watching a child is hypnotic. You look at them closely and often see things in them that you recognize yourself in. And when you see something you don't recognize, you marvel, thinking where they must have gotten it from. One day, your young son told you: "Death has entered me and I don't know what's wrong with me, but today it's not leaving me."

The definitive impulse to start writing, a self-confidence therapy, the stimulus to tell that story that is kept in a corner of the soul or a creative activity for an active retirement. The students of the Vicenç Pagès Jordà Writing Room of the Girona City Council are as diverse and heterogeneous as the motivations that have led them to want to write. But all of them, despite their different origins, ages or abilities, are touched by the same passion for writing. And for reading! Since the founder of the school, the late writer from Figueres Vicenç Pagès, did not conceive of one activity without the other.

Since ancient times, treatises on health have been frequently read, including a very specific aspect of the subject, the health of the people who study it. As for the bibliography of this particular aspect, it is worth remembering the book by David Tissot, Of the santé des gens de lettres, which we read in the Lausanne edition of 1775. It is clear from the date of publication that Tissot's advice had to be welcomed in an era, the Age of Enlightenment, in which men and women of letters and study proliferated. Since study is a sedentary activity, Tissot made a series of recommendations in his book, some very sensible, others very fanciful, in the absence of a more perfect development of the health sciences.