The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years' experience. To which are added, some rules for preserving health by diet / By John Smith.

  • John Smith
Date:
1740
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Credit: The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years' experience. To which are added, some rules for preserving health by diet / By John Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 5° ) can be well digeded, the chylous Juice, fo rightly prepared, is conveyed into the lafoeai Veflels, and from thence into the Blood; fo that. Nature being duly fupplied with well-conco&ed Nourifhment, the corrupted Blood will free itfelf from that Corruption in Time, by throwing it out, through the Pores of the Skin, in Perfpiration, and fupply itfelf with the purer juices; and, in this Way, Confumptions and Scurvies, and other Chronical Didempers, will be overcome. Which Way of curing Difeafes by Fading, Swine do naturally betake themfelves to, who, when fick, will eat nothing till they recover, as they always do after they injure themfelves by over-eating;' in which over-eating they are imitated by all who de¬ light in Gluttony, tho5 not in ullng the fame Means of Recovery, by Fading : So that Hoggs are wiler in that Particular than fuch People. That Men in Health may prevent Difeafes, ^twas A Rule /#advifed. That one Meal fhould not be eaten, till the Eating,] other, which was eaten before, was paffed off clean out of the Stomach; which never is done till the Ap~ petite of Hunger is found to call for another Supply ; By Means of which condant Obfervation, the Food will be converted to good Chyle, and from good Chyle, which is a Milk-like Subfiance, good Blood will be bred, and from good Blood generous Spirits will be produced,#?? which a healthy Conflitution will enfue; but, on the contrary, when too great a Quan¬ tity of Food is taken for Pleafure onlyy which the Stomach cannot well digeb, the Chyle will be raw and corrupt, which will foul the Blood, and render the Body difordered and unhealthy. Benefits of Others fay. That Abffinence and Sobriety free from Sobriety, mod Difeafes, efpecially Catarrh% Coughs, Whee- fmgSy Giddinefis, ‘Pain in the Head mid Stomach, fudden ‘Death, Lethargies, Gout and Sciatica, an ill Digeftion being the Caufe of all thefe; it alfo pre¬ vents Pains in the Splene, Stone, and Gravel, and a dry Itch ; it makes the Body vigorous and nimble, maintains the Five Senfes in a good State, prefervetb the
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