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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    much nourifhment to Perfons of weak \Digefiions. Some fay, Chocolate gives them an Appetite 5 the meaning of which may be, that when they have a good Ap¬ petite for their Breakfaft, it is not unlike-* ly it may continue all the Day : But I am of opinion, 'tis zfalfe and hyfterical Appetite, fuch as {harp Wines, and fharp Humours in the Stomach give. For fat and oily Things, fuch as all Nuts are, are hard to digeft, and lie long in the Sto¬ mach, for reafons I have already ex¬ plain'd : It may lubricate and {heath againit the Irritation of fait and fioarp Humours in the Bowels, and therefore may be good in the Colicks and Gravel of thofc of ftrong and Bout Digeftion ; but can ne¬ ver be good Food for thofe of weak Nerves and poor Conftitutions. Nothing is fo light and eafy to the Stomach, molt certainly, as the Farinaceous or mealy Vegetables j fuch as Peafe, Beans, Mil¬ let, Oats, Barly, Rye, Wheat, Sago, Rice, Potatoes, and the like 5 of fome of which on Milk or Water, I fhould ever advife the Valetudinary, and thofe of weak Nerves, to make their two lejfer or fecondary Meals. Tobacco is another foreign Weed, much in ufe here in Bri¬ tain y though not among the beft, yet among the middle and inferiour Ranks of the People: For thole of grofs and K Phleg*
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