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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    draw into them, the good or bad qua¬ lities of the circumambient Air, rhrough the Mouths of all the perfpiratory Hulls of the Skin. And if we were to view an animal Body with a proper Glafs, it would appear with an Atmofphere quite round it, like the Steam of a boiling Pot. Now we may eafiiy conceive, what injury a Confutation may receive, not only by flopping fuch a perpetual Hifi charge of Superfluities, but alfo by force- ing into the Habit, by the Airs Weight and jPreJJure, thofe noxious Fumes and Vapours, that are perpetually falling near the Surface of the Earth, in the Night¬ time. Your true Topers are fo fcnfible of this, that by Obiervation they have gathered it to be more fafe for their Health, and better for prolonging their Lives, to get drunk betimes and go to Bed, than to fit up and be fiber. §. 4. On the contrary, the Heat of the Sun in the Day-time, by its AElion on human Bodies, the very Light, and free Air, and the Motions of things about us, difttirbing the Quiet of the Air, mu ft neceflarily diforder the equable Courfe of the Ferfpiration, the Tenour of the fecondary Cone 0 El ions, and the Tranquil¬ lity of the Spirits fo necefiary to Reft and Quiet*
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