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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    Motion of their Guts are too weak, whereby the Food (laying too long a Time before the Mouths of the Lafieals, is over-drain’d of its Moijlure: Thofe j who have purging Stools, have eat too ' much, or of Things too ftrong for their concoctive Powers. For fuperfluous Nou- rifhment leaves too much Chyle in the f Fences^ which fermenting in the Guts7 ftmulates them fo as to become a Purge. i have often obferved, That a full Meal Of firong Meat, as Fifb, Beef, Pork, Baked Meat, or made Difhes, in tender Perfons, goes off with the Hurry and Irritation of a Purge, leaving the Bowels inflated * * ca» licked, or griped, and the Spirits funk to the laft Degree. The Foof by its va¬ rious Mixturea Weighty and Fermentation flimulating all along from the Stomach to tbe Reclam, and being fcarce ever drain¬ ed of its Chyler without affording any Nourifhment to the Body, runs off thus crudely, and becomes equal to a total Abfiinence from Food for a long Time. And hence we have a moll infallible Rule, a Poferiori7 to judge if we have f i. e. The Food, after it is drain’d of its Nu¬ tritious Parts. * e. After the Tryat has been made. govern-