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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    ( y8 An Essay of Health the Expences of Living. And it feems as improper in the Order of Nature, to difturb the animal Functions in the time of Sleeps by any other Employment, than that of thefecondary Concobtions (as they are called 5) i.e. the applying the Nou¬ rishment to the decayed Parts, to recruit the Blood, perfect the Secretions, and to layup plenty of Spirits, or (to fpeak more Fhilofophically,) to reftore the weakned Tone of nervous Fibres j that is in fhort, to reftore the ^Decays of Watch¬ ing and Action : This I fay, is as impro¬ per, as it would be (were it poffible,) to eat or drinky or make provifion for the Neceffities of Life, in the time of Sleep¬ ing. From hence is evident, the Abfur- dity of heavy, various and luxurious Suppers, or of going to Reft till many Hours after fuch a Meal 5 which muft otherwife break in upon the Order of Nature and the due and appointed Times of Sleeping and Watching. Wherefore, I advife the Valetudinary, the Studious, and the Contemplative, either to make no Suppers, or only of vegetable Food*; and to take a due Time for Watching after them. 2. There is nothing more certain, than that (abftracfting from acute Cafes) our /
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