An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1724
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    144/292 page 90
    every Tiling Good that he had made. Nor feem the Ccelejlial Bodies to have efcaped., To far as they regard us. Whatever be in this, the Paffage where God tells Adam, * That in the Sweat of his Brow he jhall eat Bread, fee ms to be the Injunction of a falutary Penance *, that is, Not merely a Punfoment^ but alfo a Remedy againft the Diforders his Body would be liable to in this new State of the Creation, and a gain if the poifonous Ef¬ fects of the Forbidden Tree he had eaten the Fruit of. I am the more confirmed in this Belief, that I obferve, thq abfolute Neceflifcy of Labour and Exercife, to pre¬ fer ve the Body any Time in due plight, to maintain ’Health, and lengthen out Life. For let whatfoever Diet be pur- filed, however adjufted both in Quan¬ tity and Quality, let whatever Evacua¬ tions be ofed to leffen the Malady, or any f Smcedaneum be propofed, to pre¬ vent the ill Effetls, our Bodies are fo made, and the Animal 0economy now fo contrived, that without due Labour and Exenife, the Juices will thicken, the * Gen. chap. in. v. ig, t i. e. Equivalent. Joints
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image