A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency: together with the method for its prevention and cure / [Thomas Short].

  • Thomas Short
Date:
1728
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Credit: A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency: together with the method for its prevention and cure / [Thomas Short]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    les either a larger Secretion of Oil from the Blood, and laying it up in the Ve+ Jlcula Adifofie, or occafions the depo¬ rting of a flimy Lentor on the Infides of the VefTels, and fo a Leucophlegma- cy ; both which in create Corpulency, but chiefly the laft. » ' 2. Plenty of Eatables and Drinkables, of a foft, fmooth, balfamick Nature, (free from fuch fharp, auftere Particles, as abrade, cut or tear in their PafTage the Coats of the fmall VefTels) which caufe no uneafy or painful Senlation in any Part of the Body, fo as to difturb Secretion and Reft, do greatly promote Corpulency. The Meats which feem more particularly adapted to this Pur- pofe, are, (i.) Sweet, fat, or oily Things, which nourifli much, and* quickly lay in large Store into Veficles or the Imall Bladders, prepared for the receiving and containing of Oil, their Sub. ftance being very fimilar to thefe Parts of our Bodies. Galen fays, Sweets are the Bafts of all Nourifhers : But this does not hold in bilious Conftitutions; for in fueh, Sugar, Honey, &c. eaft- 1 iy
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