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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    called thin ; but it can in no Senfe be called good Blood. The thinneft and moll fluid Blood, is ever to be look’d upon as the he(l Blood* as confiding of finefl and fmallefl Parts, which mod rea- . dily runs into red Globules, and mod: eafily circulates thro’ the capilIaryVeffels, which is the mod folid Foundation of good Health and long Life. Now as nothing but indulging in drong high Foods, which the concoftive Powers cannot break and divide into Parts [mail enough to run into red Globules, or circulate through the [mail VefTels* but overdock them with urinous Salts, which run into Clujlers, and fir ft oh- ftruci, and afterwards break thefe final! VefTels, and in wallowing in drong Liquors, which parboil and eat out the tender and delicate Fibres of the Solids; 1 fay, as nothing hut fuch an Indul¬ gence, and fuch ExceiTes, long conti¬ nued, 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 Dropfy, or fame other fatal chronical Didernper, according to the Habits and particular Make and Conditution of the Party (for no Perfoo that lived low and meagre, and drank only
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