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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    after a full Meal, or\when one is adry between Meals, and much more fafe and effectual than 'Drams or ftrong Cor¬ dials , which are commonly uled for that Purpofe. Some Perfons of weak tender Nerves, fall into Lownefs and Trem¬ bling upon ufing either of thefe Liquors with any Freedom, from their too great Quantity, or their Irritation on the ten¬ der and delicate Fibres of the Stomach. Such ought carefully to avoid and ab- ftain from them, as from Drams and Drops. But I can never be of their O- pinion who afcribe the Frequency of Scurvy, Vapours, Lowfpiritednefs, and nervous Diftempers now, to what they were in the Days of our Forefathers, to the Cuftom of Drinking more frequent¬ ly and freely of thefe foreign Infujions.. The Caufe is not adequate to the Effect; nor indeed has any Analogy to, or Con¬ nexion with it. We know that warm Water, will moft of any Thing promote and affift Digeftion in weak Stomachs and tender Nerves. And by this alone I have feen feveral fuch Perfons recover to a Miracle, when cold Mineral Waters, Bitters, Cordials and Drams, have done rather Hurt than Good. And Tea is but an Infujion in Watcr of an innocent Plant: Innocent, I fay, becaufe we find by
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