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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    8. Nothing conduces more to Health and Long Life, than Abfiinence and plain Food, with due Labour. 9. Where Exercife is wanting (as in fiudious PeiTons) there is the greater Need of Abfiinence s for thefe, 8 Ounces of animal, and 12 of vegetable Food, in 24 Hours, is fufficient. 10. Moft chronical Difeafes proceed from Repletion s as appears from their being cured by Evacuation. 11. Tender Perfons ought to ufe as much Abfiinence, as they poffibly can : And, if they negled it, their only Re¬ lief is from frequent ftomachick and Fa¬ mily-CP urges. 12. A plain Rule for judging of the Qgiantity is, not to eat fo much as in- difpofes for Bufinefs. 13. A more fenfible and readier one is, firft by Experience to find out how much fits one, fo as to be lightfome and healthy under it, and ever after to judge the Quantity by the Eye 3 Nature requir¬ ing therein no mathematical Exa&nefs. 14. Pork and fv/F are not fit Food for the Studious and the Tender. 15. Water is the moft natural and wholefome of all Drinks, quickens the Appetite, and ftrengthens the Digeflion moft. 16. Strong
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