An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    91/302 (page 41)
    by all wife Nations, as the Southern Peo¬ ple do mad Dogs in the hot Months, The fame Cenfure I fhould pafs upon all Fifh. Mod Fifh live in a faltifh Element, and come only into frefh Water Rivers, for the Quietnefs and Conveniency of bringing forth their young ones. This makes their Parts more clofely united and harder of Digeftion. Befides, as I have before obferved, they feed upon one another, and their Juices abound with a Salt that corrupts the Blood, and breeds chronical Difeafes. And his always ob- fervable, that thofe who live much on Fifh are infc&ed with the Scurvy, cuta¬ neous Eruptions, and the other Difeafes of a foul Blood. And every Body finds himfelf more thirfty and heavy than ufual after a full Meal of Fifh, let them be ever fo frefh 5 and is generally forced to have Recourfe to Spirits and diftilied Liquors to carry them off: So that it is become a Fro verb, among thofe that live much upon them, that Brandy is Latin for Fifh. Befides, that after a full Meal of Fifh, even at Noon, one never fleeps fo found the enfuing Night5 as is certain from conftant Obfervation. Thefe few Hints may ferve the valetudinary Pcrfon, in a grofs Manner, to judge by G the