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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    their former Elafticity; whereas the So¬ lids of lean People being more compadt, and the Parts of their Fibres, as well as the Fibres themielves, firmly connected with one another, muft have and main¬ tain a greater Command over all the Flu- - ids, break and mix them thorowly ; where^ by the Secretions will be better perform¬ ed, and the feparated Fluids better pre¬ pared, and fitter for their Intentions ; the nutritious Matter will be fully dige- fted, and the Evacuations duly difchar- ged, being neither too fpeedily elimina¬ ted, nor too long retained : So that all the Adtions of Life, and Secretions of the Body are more duly and better per* formed in flender and healthy Perfons, than in corpulent, even fuppofe they may enjoy a feemingly healthy State. 3. As flender People are generally the more healthy, fo when they are out of Order, they are frequently eafier and fooner reftored to Health, becaufe their Fluids are feldom fo vitiated, (except from fome external Caufe, or fome great Loofe of Intemperance ) and likewife be¬ caufe there is no fuch Repletion in their F Bodies,