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

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1724
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with fudorijic Woods and Roots, and from its Succefs in outward Applications for the fame Pnrpofes. And tho* Time may in fome Meafure get the better of this,in its fenfible and obvious Operations 5 yet ftnee JVater is agrofler Body than Fire, or Flame, it never can penetrate it fo far as quite to extinguifh its inmofaHeat 5 efpc- ciaily if we confider, that Spirits are but an Accumulation of fine Salts and light 0/7, compaded together into the fmalleft Vo¬ lume j the firft whereof is fo hard and folid, as naturally to retain their Heat the longeft, into which Water cannot enter 5 the other, to wit the Oyle, is fo inflamable, that it molt readily receives Heat and Fire, and defends the Salts from the Power of the Water over them. And in the continued 'Diftillation of Spi¬ rits, this Adion of the Fire is fo ftrong, as to reduce them to liquid Flames at laft, which will of themfelves evaporate in viftble Flames and Fumes. The other principal Part of the Compofition is the Juice of Oranges and Lemons. And if we confider, that a Lemon or Orange could never be tranfported half Seas over to us, without rotting or fpoiling,if gather¬ ed when wholly ripe, we (hould have no great Opinion of their Juices. Eve¬ ry Spanifh or Fortugal Merchant can in¬ form
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