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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    Meal, are fettled and wrought off. I fhould advife therefore thofe who are of a weak relaxed State of Nerves, who are fubjed to hypochondraical or hyjlencal Diforders, whole Profe(lions lead them to much Ufe of their intellectual Facul¬ ties, or who would indulge fpeculative Studies, to go early to Bed, and to rife betimes 5 to employ their morning Hours in trhefe Exercifes till eleven a Clock, then to take fome Agreeable Breakfafl of vegetable Food; to go on with their Studies and RrofeJJions till three, four, or five, as their Spirits will hold out, and then ro take their great Meal of animal Food > all the reft of the Day to throw off all Study and Thought, divert themfelves agreeably in fome innocent Amufementy with fome gentle bodily Exercife s and as foon as the TSigeJlion is over, to retire and provide for going to Bed, without any farther fupplies, except it be a Glafs of fair Water, or warm Sack-Whey. But the Aged and Sickly muft go fooner to Bed and lye longer, becaufe Age and Sicknefs break reft, and the ftiffen’d and hardened Limbs of the Antient become more pliant and relaxed by much Sleep, a fupme Pofture, and the Warmth of the Bed. Rules
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