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
Date:
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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    and life at beft. Whatever be in this conjec- ture, it is evident to thofe who underftand the animal occonomy, and the frame of human bodies, toj]ether with the hiftory, bothofttiofe who have lived abftemioufly, and of thofe who have lived freely, that indulging in flelh- meals, and llrong liquors, inflames the paf- lions, and Ihortens life, begets chronical dif- tempers, and a decrepid age, as the hiftory of the life of Cornaro, manifefls to a demon- firation. $ 3. Of all the exercifes that are, or may be uled for health (fuch as walking, riding a horfc-back, or in a coach, fencing, dancing,, playing at billiards, or tennis, diggingj^ working at a pump, ringing a dumb bell, &c.) walking is the moft natural, as it would be al- fo the moft ufeful, if it did not fpend too much of the fpirits of the weakly. Riding is certain- ly the moft manly, and moft healthy, and the lead laborious, and expenflve of fpirits,.ofi any ; fhaking the whole machine, promoting an univerfal perfpiration and fccretion ot alf the fluids (to which may be added, the va»- lious changes of the air, through which they fo quickly pafs, every alteration of which, be- comes, as it were, a new bath) and thereby,, varioufly twitching the nervous fibres, to brace and contracl them, as the new feenes amufe the mind. Thofe who cannot ride, mud be carried in a coach or litter, which is the hc(^ exercife for the lame and crazy, and the only one proper for old and.decrepid perfons, as well as thofe that are fo young, that they arje