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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    fitting, or being confined, feems to be the g reate ft Punifhment they can fuffer, and imprifoning them for fbme Time, will much more readily correct them than Whipping. This is a wife Contrivance of Nature; for thereby, their Joints are render’d pliable and Jlrong; their Blood continues fweet, and proper for a full Circulation; their Perfpiration is freer and their Organs fir etched out, by due De¬ grees, to their proper Extenfion. §.4. It is alfo very agreeable to oh- ferve, how the feveral different Organs of Labouring Men are ftrengthen’d, and renderd Brawny and Nervous, as they happen to he molt employ’d in their feveral Vocations, let them be otherwife ever fo fmall or weakly. T he Legs, Thighs, and Feet of Chairmen ; the Arms and Hands of Watermen; the Backs and Shoulders of Porters, grow thick, Jlrong, and brawn) by Time. ’Tis certain, that \ fpeaking Jlrong and loud7 without over- Jtraining, will ftrengthen the Voice, and give Force to the Lungs. Our Nails and Hair, the more they are cut and fhaved, the more they grow. And we may pro¬ mote Sny one Evacuation fo far, as to weaken and ftarve all the reft, fifing any