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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    there area kind of Liquors in Ufe among the better Sort, which fome great Doc¬ tors have Condemn'd, by Bell, Book, and Candle, and others have as extra¬ vagantly commended : I mean. Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate. For my own Part, I take all their Virtue to conlift in Cu- fiom, and all their Harm in Excefs. As to Coffee, it is a meet Calx, or a Kind of burnt Horfe Bean, but lighter on the Stomach, and of fomewhat a better Fla¬ vour. The Turks ufe it, and Opium in- ftead of Brandy. But the Plea that fome make for running into Exccfs in it, from this Mahometan Cuftom, is altogether weak and groundlefs 5 for thofe that do fo there, fuffer by it, as we do here: And thofe that Debauch in it, turn Stu¬ pid, Feeble, and Taralitick by it, cfpe- cially when they join Opium with it, as they frequently do, as thofe who wal¬ low in thefe, do here, and are as much Defpis'd and Expos'd by ferious Perfons, as our Topers and Brandy-fwillers arc here. A Difh or two of Coffee, with a little Milk to foften it, in raw or damp Weather, or on a Wateriph and Flegma* tick Stomach, is not only innocent, but a prefent Relief. But 'tis as ridiculous, and perhaps more hurtful, at leaft in thin and dry Habits, to dabble in it two or three
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