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

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their Inconftancy, and Impatience of being confined in their Appetites, makes them either throw off all Remedies and Reftraints in Defpair, and give themfelves up to an habitual Indul¬ gence in all thofe Things that brought on or exafperated the Diftemper, or run about changing, from Doctor to Doftor, till they end with a Quack, or die under the Hands of a Mountebank, and are fool’d out of their Lives and Money at once. It is furprizing, that reafonable Men can imagine, that in any [mall Time, any poffible Methods or Medicines ihould cure, or even fen- iibly relieve a Diftemper, that perhaps was brought with them into the World, and interwoven with the Principles of their Being, or. atieaft, may have been Ten or Twenty Tears a breeding, by Ex- cejjes, or an indiscreet Regimen. I know no fitter Similitude of the Cafe, than the annual Income of an Eftate juft fuf- ficient to keep one in decent Neceflaries, and due Plenty and Cleannefs. If one that has fuch an Eftate, run out every Year, for Ten or Twenty Years, and then fet about to retrieve, before he be come to Starving or a Gaol, would we not count him mad, if he ffaould ima¬ gine
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