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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    24. Coffee is only an Infufion of a kind of Calx, and has the Effects of an ahforbent Medicine 5 and fo may be of fome Service to watry Stomachs, if mo¬ derately ufed. 25. Green Tea is a good Diluter of the Food, as it is an agreeable, warm, fmall Liquor : But Bohea is too heavy for the Stomach, 26. Chocolate (as all Nuts elfe) is fo heavy and hard of Digeftion, that it can never be fit for the Stomachs of weak and tender People. 27. Smoaking Tobacco, without drink¬ ing after it, Chewing or Snuffing the grofs cut Leafm a Morning, are ufeful to fleg- matick Conftitutions 5 but to dry and lean Habits they are pernicious. Snuff is juft good for nothing at all. 28. The proper Quantity of watry Li¬ quors in 24 Hours, to thofe that live re¬ gularly, is two Tints, (as that of firong Liquor is one Pint) which is beft drank warm, and rather after than in the Time of Eating. ' 29. The Form of a Cordial fit to be kept in private Families, as a prefent and certian Relief, for fudden Qualms, Faint- nefs, Sicknefs, or low Spirits s but never to be taken but in Cafe of Neceility. 'Tiff' f ' CHAP.
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