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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    or no Supper at all, and bear the Incon¬ veniences thence arifing 5 their Appetites would come in due feafon, and they would quickly find the Truth of the Aphorifm of the Schola Salernitana. * Somnus utJit levisy Jit tibi Cano? brevis. J'. 3. The Seafons for Sleeping and Watching-, which Nature feems to point out to us, at leaft in thefe our Climates near the Tropic k7 are the Vicifjitudes of T>ay and Night. ThokTDamps, Vapours, and Exhalations, that are drawn up into the higher Regions, and are fo ratified by the Heat and Adion of the Sun, as to become innocent or very weak in the Day-time 5 are condenfed, Jink low, near the Surface of the Earth, and are perpe¬ tually dropping down in the Night Sea- fon s and confequently muft be injuri¬ ous to thofe tender Perfons, that unna¬ turally watch in that Seafon; and muft neceffarily obftrud the Terfpiration, which the Activity of Watching, and the Motion of Labour promotes.. I have already fhewn, that our Bodies fuck and M draw * 1. e. That your Sleep may he fweet9 Ut your Supper he light.
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