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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    Cafe to be mentioned in the next Para¬ graph be an Exception to it* For the grofs M^/gave rather more UneaJinefs,'whct\ it came to be thrown off by Perjpiration. Coroll. 3. From hence we may alfo fee, the Ridieuloufnefs of the Vulgar Opinion, afcribing univerfally the Pain they fuffer, or the Relief they find, to the lajl Meal or Medicine. §a 6. There are fome forts of Food which may opprefs and load the Stomach and Alimentary Duffs in the fir fit Con- coffion, which may be very fafe and benign in the fubfequent ones. For in- ftance, Cheefe, Eggs, Milk-Meats, and Vegetable Food, tho’ duly prepared, and juftly proportioned in Quantity, may chance to lie heavy on the Stomach, or beget Wind in the Alimentary Paffages I of fome Perfons (and yet drinking of ■■ Water will always remedy this Incon- veniemy): But thefe neither having their Parts ftrongly united, nor abound¬ ing in fharp Urinous Salts, when they become fufficiently diluted with a ivatry Menflruum, or diffolved into their Component Parts, and their Parts being ft ill jmailer than th sfmalleft Veffels, and ♦•li ^it*