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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    their Union conftantly lefs, than the Force of the Concofiive Powers, in Perfons who have any remaining Fund of Life in them ; will thereby yield a fweet, thin, and eafily Circulating Chyle, in the after Contortions become benign and falutary, and afford no Materials for Chronical Diftempers. And the Wind thence generated, not being pointed and armed with fuch fharp Salts, as thofe of Flefh Meats, or the Corrofwe Juices of Spiri¬ tuous Liquors, will be as innocent and (afe, as t{ie Element we breathe in, §.7, The Second Evacuation is by Water, whofe Circumftances and Con¬ dition, tho’ little adverted to, may be of great Service todifcover both the State of our Constitution, and the Proportion of our Diet. Some People are frightned when they find their Water turbid, bro¬ ken, and full of Brick-dujt Sediment; whereas that is the beft Symptom it can have. For tho’ it fuppofes the Blood loaded with Urinous Salts and Crudities; yet ’tis ftill better they fhould pafs off than continue in the Habit. On the contrary, when thofe that live freely have Quantities of pale, limpid and fveet Water, ’tis a certain Sign that the Per- R [pi*