A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire].

  • John Cheshire
Date:
1723
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arc guilty of an Excefs either in Re-* Ipedt of the Quantity or Quality of what we eat or drink, we fix a Load more than tolerable upon Nature, and fo of Necelfity Ihe muft fuccumb. Thus the Blood and Nerves are ftruck into Confufion, become ali¬ enated from their regular Crafts, and Pandora’s, Prelent to Epimetheus is frequently the Fate of the Epicure, who then finds the Poet’s Obferva- tion experimentally verified, -No- cet empta dolore voluptas. The Stomach from the Nature of its Situation and Office muft abound with a peccant Acid, which from the Laws of Digeftion and Sanguifi^ cation, will contaminate theMafsof Blood; and when that is once fatura- ted with heterogeneous Particles, they will, unlefs corrected by a proper and long continued Courfe of Alteratives, by their attractive Power, form them- ' felves, i
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