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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    groom treats his wafted and decayed horfe :• and (which is wonderful) you (hall find a fa- gacibus horfe-doiSlor plump up and fatten a rotten, lean, broken-winded jade, and make him look fleck, gay> and lively, fo as to cheat not only the Efquirc, but his brother doflor,. in fewer weeks, than all the man-do6lors in England could rear up their reflow creature, in years. It is true the juices of men are more varioufty, and more thoroughly eerrupt- cd, and their folids entirely broken, which 3iever happens to the brute creation-. But the greateft miftakc lies in t-he-hegle^i of duly ob- fcrving, and religioufly profecuting a proper regimen. This muft principalTy Gor.fifi; in a diet of foft, light, tender, coj], and mucila- ginous foods, or fuch as are already become chyle, cither by natyre or art, fuch are nailk, and milk-meats, rice, fago, barley, wheat, eggs, broths, light foops, jellies, white, young, tender, and well fed poultry, or butchery meat, eateja little at a time, and of- ten, i^ever without an appetite, nor to faticty j joining tothefe, the other helps and aftjftan- ces mentioned in this treatife. When ftefti iff once come, it is cafy to make it ftrong and hardy, by due exercife, and a gradual adven- turing upon higher foods and more geuerouff I 3. I have often heard valetudinary and tender perfons, and thofc of fedentary Tives and learned profeffions, complain of head- achsr, fickneftes at the ftomach, cholickff and gripesj lowncfs of fpirits, wind, and vapours, and