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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    CHAP. Ill Of Sleeping and W A T C H I N G. HE next general Head in order, is our Sleeping and Watching. All Bodies by their Adions upon one another, and by the Adion of the circumambient Bodies, are liable to be impaired and wafted : And all animal Bodies, from an a£llve and felf-moving Principle within them, as well as from the Rubs of Bodies without them, are conftantly (throwing off fome of their fuperfluous and decayed Barts 5 fo that animal Bodies, are in a perpetual Flux. To reftore this Decay and Wafting of animal Bodies, Nature has wifely made alternate 'Periods of Labour and Reft, Sleeping and Watching, necejfary to our Being 5 the one for the a£tive Employ¬ ments of Life, to provide for and take in the Materials of our Nourishment 3 the other, to apply thofe Materials to the proper wafted Parts, and to fupply the
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