A treatise on health and long life ... To which is added to this edition, (not in any former one) the life of the author / [George Cheyne].

  • George Cheyne
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1787
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Credit: A treatise on health and long life ... To which is added to this edition, (not in any former one) the life of the author / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quantity of Arong liquors, fitteA to prefervc health and lengthen out life in general, to a pound or pint, and that of the middling kind. But the Aekly, the aged, and thofe who would cure the chronica] diAemper, muA even abate of this quantity. The only remaining quef- tion, is about the quantity of water, or watery liquors, proper to be mixed with this Arong hquor, or drank by itielffor in this alfo, though in itfcif harmlefs and innocent, yet there is a clioiccand preference j becaufc, too much water will only lerve to diftend and /well up the vciTcIs, and waft off feme of the finer and more nutritious parts of the chyle i and too little, will not be fufficient to dilute the folid food, or to make the chyle thin and fluid enough, to circulate through the fine and fmall veffels. I will foppofe my patiept to deal in no other cookery, but roaAing and boiling} and that he eats only freft meat} boiling animal food, draws more of the rank, ftrong, juices from it, and leaves if lefs nu- tritive, more diluted, lighter and eafier of di- gcAion. RoaAing on the other hand, leaves it fuller of the Arong nutritive juices, harder todigeA, and wantirrg more difution : Thofe therefore, ^who muA have full grown and adult animal food, ought to cat it tailed, and well boiled too; if their digeftion be but weak. They who-can live on young animal food, (which is beA for weak Aomachs,) ought to cat it roaAed, but muA leffen the quantity, in refpeft of the fame food boiled? but they muA dilute it more ; for as roaA .meat has a bet- ter flavour and more nouriftment, fo it lifs-