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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    the Expences of Living. And it Teems as improper in the Order of Nature, to difturb the animal Functions in the time of Sleep, by any other Employment, than that of the fecondary Concoblions (as they are called 5) /. e. the applying the Nou- riftiment to the decayed Parts, to recruit the Blood, perfect the Secretions, and to lay up plenty of Spirits, or (to fpeak more Fhilofophically,) to reftore the weakened Tone of nervous Fibres $ that is in fhort, to reftore the Decays of Watch¬ ings and Adlton: This I fay, is as impro¬ per, as it would be (were poffible,) to eat or drink, or make provifion for the Ncceffities of Life, in the time of Sleep¬ ing. From hence is evident, the Abfur- dity of heavy, various, and luxurious Suppers, or of going to Reft till many Hours after fuch a Meal 5 which muft otherwife break in upon the Order of Nature and the due and appointed Times of Sleeping and Watching. Wherefore, I advife the Valetudinary, the Studiousy and the Contemplative, either to make no Suppers, or only of vegetable Food > and to take a due Time for Watching after them. §. 2. There is nothing more certain, than that (abftracting from acute Cafes) our