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 / By George Cheyne.
- George Cheyne
- Date:
- 1753
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![natural Ten/ion and Situations; and confequently will make the Secretions more plentifully, and ali the Funétions willbe more natural, and eafier, than under a fpare, cautious and anxioufly guarded ftarving Regimen of {0 little animal Food as is abfolutly neceflary; as a weak Perfon will walk more eafily in Srays than loofe, fome lame Perfons in a Boot than a Stocking; anda defenfive Plaifter will keep a Sore cafier, than when it is bare; and Exceflesare neither fo pain- ful nor dangerous under the jirft as under the fecond Regimen 5 and the fame Perfon may fafely venture on at leaft four times as much Vegetable, Seed and Milk Food, as he dare of animal Food of any kind, at leaft of denfé, hard, or full-grown animal Food. | §. 1r. ] THINK the natural Order and Pro- greffion in Regimen, for thofe who are or- dain’d to, or for thofe whofe Vocation and Occupation is fedentary and ftudious, who by the Order of Providence, and Situation of Life, have been fignatur’d to intellectual Pro- feffions, and for all thofe who would cultivat and maintain clear Heads and quick Senfes to the laft, is from their Birth till Fifteen, to perfevere in a gradually increafing temperat Diet, without fermented Liquors; from Fifteen to Fifty, to be only temperat in animal Foods and fermented Liquors; after Fifty to give up animal Food Suppers, and fermented Liquors after Sixty to give up all animal Food; am then](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30503735_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
