An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1745
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    called thin; but it can in no Senfe be called good Blood. The thinned and mod duid Blood is ever to be look’d upon as the bejl Blood as confiding of jineji and fmalleft Parts; which mod readily runs into red Globules, and mod eafily circulates through the capillary Vcf- fels, which is the mod folid Foundation of good Health, and Long Life. Now as nothing but indulging in drong high Foods, which the concoclive Powers cannot break and divide into Parts jmall enough to run into red Globules, or circulate through the Jrnall Vcifcis, but overdock them with urinous Salts, which run into Clnfters, and fird obftnicl, and afterwards break, thefe fmall Vei- fels, and in wallowing in drong Liqours, which parboil and eat out the tender and delicate Fibres of the Solids; 1 lay, as nothing but fuch an Indulgence, and fuch Excedes, long continued, and obdinately perfided in, can beget fuch a State of the Fluids and Solids, and fo bring on a Cachexy, which may end in a Hropfy, or dome other fatal Chronical Didemper, according to the Habits, and particular Make and Con- ditution, of the Party, (for no Pcrfon 'that lived low and meagre* and drank
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