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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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    jjw 4F 216 An Essay c/Healtm them, feldom fail to reach, and nevef care for Food for a condderable Time after, 'till their Effects are wrought off $ which are the conftant Symptoms of a relaxed Stomach and Guts. 3. Nothing fo much promotes the Eruption of the Small-pox and Meafles, the Expulfion of the Stone and Fcetus, the Monthly, and the After-birth Purifications of the Sex, as Opiates ; infomuch, that in dif¬ ficult Births, they are now the only Refource of the Midwife Phyficians ; and, when joined with Volatiles, will bring on the mod; powerful and vigorous Throws, in the mod: weak and lan- guijhing Conditutions. Thefe Effects they can produce only by relaxing thofe Fibres Pain has contracted and render’d uneladick, in fome meafure. 4. No¬ thing quiets and dops Cramps, Convul- Jions, and Hyfierick Fits, fo fuddenly and certainly as Opiates do. And every one knows thefe arife from violent Con¬ tractions, and crifping up of the muf- cular Fibres. All thefe, and many more fuch Effedfs, Opiates produce, by unbendiag, loofening, and relaxing thofe Fibres violent and acute Pain had con- ftridted and contracted, and by giving a Refpite and Reprieve from its Tortures,
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