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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    Soopy high Sauces, Baking, Smoakingy J Salting, and Bicklmg, are the Inventions of Luxuryy to force an unnatural Appe¬ tite, and encreafe the Load, which Na¬ ture, without Incentives from ill Habits, and a vicious Palate, will of itfelf make more than fufficient for Health and long Life. Abjlinence and proper Evacua-1 tionSy due Labour and Exercifey will al-f ways recover a decayed Appetite, fo long! as there is any Strength and Fund in Na¬ ture to go upon. And Jtis fcarce allow- ble to provoke an Appetite, with medi¬ cinal Helps, but where the digefiive Fa¬ culties have been fpoiled and ruined by acute or tedious chronical Diftempers. 1 And as loon as 'tis recovered to any to- f lerable Degree, Nature is to be left to its own Work, without any Spurs from Cookery or Bhyfick. 4. The next Confidcration is the Qiiantity of Food that is neccflary to fupport Nature, without overloading it, in a due Plight : That is indeed various, according to the Agey Sex, Naturey Strength, and Country the Party is of, and the Exercife he ules. In thefe Nor¬ thern Countries, the Coldncfs of the Air7 the Strength and large Stature of People,