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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    and Bowels, may, for fome fliort Time, qualify and abate their Irritation, and may give a Fillip to the fluggifh Circula¬ tion, and become, as it were, a Cork to flop the perpetual Fuming up of thefe noxious Steams upon thg Head and Brain : But this is (pardon the Similitude) as if one fhould go to quench the pefiilential Steams of a Common-Shore, by throwing in greater Fleaps of Ordure and Nuifance into it. The proper Remedy in this j Cafe is, Pirft, To cleanfe the foetid ; Ahyfs, and then to preferve it clean by cutting off all the Inlets of Putrefaction. This will require a little Courage, La- hour ^ and Pain; but the future Eafe and Sweetnefs, will more than abun¬ dantly recompence them; for there is nothing more certain, than that of thofe born found here in England, the Head- ; aches, Stomach-aches, Colicks, and nervous Pains and Diforders, univerfa/ly proceed from Idlenejs and Fulnefs of Bread. §. 4. Thofe who eat but one mode* rate Flefh Meal a Day, will have regu- I larly once a Day a Difcharge of the Re¬ mains of their Food. And, generally fpeaking, thofe that go oftner, have exceeded fome how. Thofe who pre¬ tend