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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    them, the Chyle is too grofs, and the per- fpiratory Matter is flopped, becaufe too large for thefe fmall FduElsy and this whole Mafs7 which in common Health is more than double of the grofs Evacua¬ tions, recoils in upon the Bowels, and becomes, as it were, Spears, and4Darts, and Armour to the Air receiv'd from without 5 which being thus foarpened with the Salts of the unconcoEled Food, together with its own elaftick Force, pierces the Sides of the Veffels, and gets into all the Cavities of the Body, and between the Mufcles and their Mem- Frances, and there, in Time, brings forth hypochondriacky hyjlerick, nervous, and vapourifh Diforders, and all that black Train of Evils fuch Conftitutions fuffer under. I flhall now draw out the Cautions here inculcated into a few general Rules. General
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