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 LongLife, 5 may want them, and yet have not had fuch favourable Opportunities to learn them. §. 2. And that I might write with fome Order and Connexion, I have cho- fen to make fome Obfervations and Re¬ flections on the Non-naturals (as they are called, poflibly becaufe that in their pre¬ ternatural State they are eminently inju¬ rious to human Conflitutions j or more probably, becaufe tho* they be neceflary to the Subfiftenceof Man, yet inrefpeCt of him, they may be confidercd as ex¬ ternal, or different from the internal Caufes that produce Difeafes) to wit, 1. The Air we breathe in. 2. Our Meat and 'Drink. 3. Our Sleep and IVatch- ing. 4. Our Exercife and Reft. 5. Our Evacuations and their Obflruffiions. 6. The Rafflons of our Minds : And laflly, to add fome Obfervations that come not fo naturally under any of thefe Heads. I fhall not confider here how philofophi- cally thefe DiftinClions are made ; they feem to me, the belt general Heads for bringing in thofe Obfervations and Re¬ flections I am to make in the following Pages.