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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    our Sleep is found, fweet and refreshing, according as the alimentary Organs, are eafy, quiet and clean. If any one not fuffering under any difeafe, is difturbed in his Sleep, 'tis certain his Stomach is filled with Food, or Crudities j or his Guts filled with Wind, Choler, or fuper- fluous Chyle: And thofe reftlefs Nights, and the difficulty of going to Sleep, which are generally aferibed to Vapours, are entirely owing to thefe Caufes; though they be not fo ftrong, as to become fen- fiblei for then Fain is added to Watch¬ ing and they are felt. And upon com¬ plaints of fuch reftlefs Nights, I never once failed, upon enquiry of finding the true Caufe in the TOiet, of the preceding Day, or of fome few Days before; and conftantly have difcovered that fome er¬ ror in Eating and TOrinking, either in Quantity or Quality has produced them. I have been aftonifhed to fee hypochon¬ driacal and hyfterical People, reftlefs all Night, tolling and tumbling till towards Morning, then dropping alleep till late Hours, awake heavy, opprejfed, and un- refrefhed, complain of being hag-ridden, tired and wearied, as if they had been whip’d, fpurfd, lajhed, and beaten thro* all the Watches of the Night; rife with foul Mouths, and white Tongue, Belchings, Yawnings,
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