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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    Cramps, and Convulfions ; which cut them off in a few Days, entirely owing to this poifonous Mixture. The Bath-Water, is the only Remedy in fuch Cafes, whither they- all haften, if they can get thither alive. And here I have been inform'd of this Fa£t, by Men of the ProfeJJion, as well as their Patients, who univerfally afcrib’d them to their drinking of PUNCH and Spiri¬ tuous Liquors. If Acids muft be had, without all per ad venture, the Vtnous ones, are the bed and fafeft. The Ro¬ mans^ tho’ they,had the vegetable Acids in perfection, made very little Ufe of them but in Cookery, where the Quan¬ tity of the Poifon was fo fmall, as not to do fufficient Harm, to forbid their tiling them for the Sake of the exquifite Relifli they gave their Sauces $ and the conftant Drink of the lower Souldiery, was Vinegar and Water, which they found of excellent Ufe, both as it prevented Fevers, Plagues and Putre¬ faction, and alfo as it gave an E?iergy to the una&ive Element, and hindered it from lodging in the Body. Hence alfo the great Ufe of Oxymel and Oxy- crate, (that is, of Vinegar with Honey and with Water) among all the antient Phyficians. And indeed, whenever they
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