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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    fmallefi Veffels, where they moftly hap¬ pen, and to carry the Circulation quite round. Thirdly, Nothing is fo injurious, and fo much prevents the Benefit of Exercife to weak and tender Confuta¬ tions, as fucking into their Bodies the J Nitrous and Humid Particles of the Air, j that is, Catching of Cold. Now nothing 1 fo effeftually prevents this, as Cold- bathings as the Nature of the Thing fhews, and Experience confirms; for if Exercife, to attenuate the Juices, and ftrengthen the Solids, be added to Cold- bathing, a new Spring and Force will be given to the Blood, both to drive out thzte foreign and noxious Mixtures, and to unite the Cuticular Scales, which form the Scarf Skin, fo as to ftrengthen it for the future againft fuch violent Entries. §. 8. I fhould advife therefore, every one who can afford it, as regularly to I have a Cold Bath at their Houfe to wafh their Bodies in, as a Bafon to wafh their Hands; and conftantly, two or three Times a Week, Summer and Win¬ ter, to go into it. And thofe that can¬ not afford fuch Conveniency, as often as they can, to go into a River or Living Pond, to wafh their Bodies. But this ought