An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and. fluid enough, to circulate through the fine and [mail Vcftels. I will fuppofe my Patient to deal in no other Cookery, but Roafting and Boiling; and that he cats only frefh Meat. Boiling animal I Food, draws more of the rank, ftrongy juices from it, and leaves it lefs nutri- tive, more diluted, lighter and eafier , of Digeftion. Roafting on the other ! hand, leaves it fuller of the ftrong nutri¬ tive juices, harder todigeft, and wanting more 'Dilution: Thofe therefore, who muft have full grown and adult animal I Food, ought to eat it boiled, and well boiled too; if their Digeftion be but weak. They who can live on young animal Food, (which is beft for weak I Stomachs,) ought to eat it roafted, but I muft leffen the Quantity, in refped of the fame Food boiled $ but they muft di¬ lute it more : For as roaft Meat has a better Flavour, and more Nourifhment, lo it lies lefs flabby on the Stomach, and does not fo readily flip from, or difap- poinr the Action of Grinding, which has fome fhare in Digefiions, both pri¬ mary and fubfequent: But it will want • more Dilution, with a watry Men- ftruumy to foften its more rigid and crifip Fibres. If therefore, the whole Weight of thefolid Food, in twenty four Hours, be fuppofed a Pound and a Haft