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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    Circulation and full Perfpiration, feldom or never catch Cold. And this is the Reafon why rich Foods and generous lVines, moderately ufed, become fo ex¬ cellent an Antidote in infectious and epi- demick Diftempers j not only as they banifh Fear and Terror, but as they make fo full and free a Stream of Perfpiration, and maintain fo a&ive and brisk an At- mofphere, as fuffers no noxious Steams or Mixtures in the Air to come within it j but drives and beats off the Enemy to a Diftance. But Perfons of vifcousy heavy Fluids, of poor and fizey Juices, of little or no Perfpiration, fuch as ge¬ nerally all ftudious, fedentary, and fickly Perfons are, but efpecially thofe that arc fubjed to nervous Diioxdcxs, muft need- I farily fuffer under thefepoifonous Mixtures in the Air, if they do not cautioufly and I carefully fence againft them, or take not a prefent Remedy and Antidote, when tainted. For befides the Air that gets V through the perfpiratory TDuCls into the Blood, whenever we Eat, Drink, or Breath, we are taking into oilr Bodies, fuch Air as is about us. And when the concoClive Powers are weak, as in fuch Perfons, and the Quantity of the Food I is too great, or its Quality too ftrong for than,.
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