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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    People, demand larger Supplies than in the Eaftern and warmer Countries.Young growing Perfons, and thole of great Strength and large Stature, require more than the Aged, Weak, and Slender. But Per Ions of all Sorts will live more heal¬ thy and longer by univerfal Temperance, than otherwife. And feme general Ob- fervations on the Quantity Perfons of different Nations and Conditions, have lived on, healthy, and to a great Age, may give fome Alliftance to valetudina¬ ry and tender Perfons, to adjuft the due Quantity necelfary for them. 5. It is furprifing, to what a great Age the ea/lern Chriftians, who retir'd from the Perfections into the Defarts of Egypt and Arabia, lived healthful on a very little Food. We are inform'd by CaJJian, that the common Meafiire in twenty four Hours, was about twelve Ounces or a Pound, (for the eaftern Pound was but twelve Ounces) with mere Element for Drink. St. Antho¬ ny liv'd to 105 Years, on mere Bread and Water, adding only a few Herbs at laft. James the Hermit, to 104. Arfe- niits, the Tutor of the Emperor Arcadi- us, to 120: 65 in the world, and 55 in