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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    tffljLoNGLlFE. 2gl If Men would but obferve the golden Mean in all their Paffions, Appetites and Defires ; If in all their Thoughts, Words and Actions, they would but mind, I will not fay the End, of their Being and Exiftence here, but the End to which their Thoughts, Words and Actions natu¬ rally tended in their laft Refort; And, Lafily, If in the Gratifications of their Ap- petites, Paffions and Defires, they follow’d the uncorrupted Dictates of Nature, and neither fpurred her on beyond her Craving, nor too violently reftrained her in her innocent Biafs ; they would enjoy a greater Meafure of Health than they do ; have their Senfations more delicate, and their Pleafures more exquifite ; live with lefs Pain, and die with lefs Horror. For had it not been for the Lewdnefs, Luxury, and intem¬ perate Gratifications of the Paffions and Appetites, which firft ruined and fpoiled the Confiitution of the Fathers, whereby they could communicate only a difeafed, &rajy and untuneable Carcafs to their Sons, fo that with the World's Decay, vicious Souls and putrified Bodies, have in this our Age, arrived to their higheft and mod exalted Degrees ; I fay, had it not been for thefe Evils, there never had hap-
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