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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    12. In all acute and vehement Pain, Opium is the fovereign Relief, particu¬ larly in the Colicky Stone, Gout, Rheuma- tijm, and hard Labour of Women* It operates by relaxing and unbending the Fibres* overjlretthed and crifped up by Pain. 13. The great Secret of Health and Long Life* lies in keeping the Blood (and consequently the other Juices of the Body) in a due Degree of fluidity. CONCLUSION. TO Conclude, without raking the Benefit of Revelation, which, in a Senfe relating even to our mortal Bodies, has brought Life and Immortality to Light-, If but the Precepts of the Pagan Philofoghers were obferved, -—- Servare Modum, Finemque tueri, Naturamque feetui.———— ' * If
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