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An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their Inconftancy, and Impatience of being confined in their Appetites, makes them either throw off all Remedies and Reflraints in Defpair, and give chemfelves up to an habitual Indul¬ gence in all thofe Things that brought on or exafperated the Diftemper, or run about changing from Dodtor to Dodtor, ’till they end with a £>uack, or die under the Hands of a Mountebank„ and are fool’d out of their Lives and Money at once. It is furprizing, that reafonable Men can imagine, that in any fmall Time, any poffible Methods or Medicines fhould cure, or even fen- fibly relieve a Diftemper, that, perhaps, was brought with them into the World, and interwoven with the Principles of their Being, or, at leaft, may have been ten or twenty Tears a breeding, by Ex- cedes, or an indifcreet Regimen. 1 know no fitter Similitude of the Cafe, than the annual Income of an Eftate juft l’ufi- ficient to keep one. in decent Neceffaries, and due Plenty and Cleannefs. If one that has fuch an Eftate, run out every Year, for Ten or Twenty Years, and then let about to retrieve, before he be come to Starving or a Gaol; would we not count him mad, if he fhould ima¬ gine.
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