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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    devouring huge Quantities of high, ftrong Food, and fwallowing proportionable Meafures ofgenerous Liquors, not know¬ ing, that by this very Method, they promote and confirm the Difea/e they would remedy; For in fuch Perfons and Cafes, the globular Part of the Blood is conftantly of a [mail Quantity* and very glervj, and the flerous Part, thin and watry (that is, The Blood is poor I and weak') and the Solids or Nerves are loofle 1 and relaxed. And the conco&ive Pow¬ ers being in Proportion to thefe Two, of Confequence, the Digeflions muft be weak and imperfect, and their Force un¬ able to diffolve and break any Quantity of fuch flrong Meat or fpirituou* Liquors into a proper Chyle for Nourishment. And this great Load muft either be hurried off intirely thro5 the alimentary Duffs in fupernumerary Difcharges, or the fmall Portion of Chyle drawn out of it, being too grofs to unite and make a fimilar Fluid with the Mafs of the Blood, muft be precipitated through the other Drains of the Body ; and thus the poor thin Creature muft ftarve in Luxury, and wafte amidft Superfluity. The Cafe { is the fame with Nurfles and Parents in rearing up Toung Children. The perpe¬ tual