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 homely Country Diet, being taken into a fplendid Family, where he fed high, and drank plentifully of the belt Wines, whereby the natural Functions of the Parts were overcharged, and the Habit of the whole Body quite difordered; up¬ on which there could not but foonenfue a Dijftolution. * Dr. Lifter mentions eight Perfons in the North of England, the youngeft of which was above ioo Years, and the eldeft 140. He fays, 'tis to be obferved, that the Food of all this moun¬ tainous Country is exceedingly coarfe. And certainly there is no Place in the World more likely to lengthen out Life than England, efpecially thofe Parts of it, that have a free open Air, and a gra¬ velly and chalky Soil, if to due Exercife, Abftemionfnefs, and a plain iimple Diet were added. 7. I have f elfcwherc offered to determine the Quantity of Food, fuffi- cient to keep a Man of an ordinary Sta¬ ture, following no laborious Employ- F ment. * See Abr. of Phil of. TranfaB. by Lowth. f See the Effay of the Gout and Bath Waters.