Volume 2

An essay on regimen. Together with five discourses, medical, moral, and philosophical: serving to illustrate the principles and theory of philosophical medicin [sic], and point out some of its moral consequences / [George Cheyne].

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1740
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Credit: An essay on regimen. Together with five discourses, medical, moral, and philosophical: serving to illustrate the principles and theory of philosophical medicin [sic], and point out some of its moral consequences / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nation, throws off fome Part of this acid Wa- ter, and leaves the Ce//s partially empty. Thefe empty Ce//s, upon being immerged in any acid Spirit or Water, fuck it in again with Violence and Velocity, the remaining Part of the 4ceid in the Ce/ls attracting the new Acid with additional Force; and hence Fermentation and Effervefcence. All the Alcalis partake of this one general Nature, and differ only as they are more or lefs combin’d with the other Llements. Volatility arifes from a light O7/ united with either Kinds of Salts; and this feems to be the true philofophic Nature of all Salts. Salts and Air feem abfolutely neceflary to carry on animal Life and Fun- ctions; 4zr to rarefy the Juices, feparat the G/obules, which might otherwife be too clofe- ly\united and comprefs’d; for the Introdu- étion of which into the Blood and Fluids, the Lungs of Animals feem chiefly defign’d- Salts ftimulat the Solids into 44ions, Vibra- étons, and excite their clumfy elatftic Force, in order to carry on the animal Functions, 0 ab- folutely neceflary to living. The jut and pro- _ per Regulation of thefe two, Air and Salts, the fo neceflary Inftruments of pleafant and cafy living, is as fit a Subjeé to be adjufted by a wife and phzlofophic Phyfician, (others are but Ampyrics at the beft) as Dzet and Ever: eife. The Air we choofe to live in ought to be rather dry and thin in the Medium: but even this. mutt be proportion’d to the Nature of the ‘Di/femper, and the State of the fiices, if poflible; and they who have acquir’d their | Dilorders —
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