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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    Depreffion of Spirits, or a melting Sweat. The Fir ft will wear out the Organs, the Second fpend the Strength, and the Third will only do Violence to the Natural Fun¬ ctions. Thirdly, Due Care is to be had after Exercife, to retreat to a warm Room and proper Shelter from the Injuries of the Weather, left fucking into the wafted Body, the nitrous Particles of the cir¬ cumambient Air, they fhould inflame the Blood, and produce a Rheumatifm, Fever or Cold. I might add a Fourth ! Condition^ Joining Temperance to Exercife, f otherwife the Evil will be as broad one Way$ as ’tis long the other. For fince Exercife will create a greater Appetite, if it is indulg’d to the full, the con- coBive Powers will be as unequal to the Load, as they were before. But I pafs that over, having lufficiently treated this Subject already. §. 7. Under this Head of Exercife7 I cannot forbear recommending Cold- bathing; and I cannot fufficiently admire, how it iliould ever have come into fuch Difufe, efpecially among Chrifli- tf#/, when commanded by the great- eft Lawgiver that ever was, under the Direction of Gody$ Holy Spirit, to