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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    Summery blow with all the fiery Parti¬ cles of t\\z perpetualF^ay theypafs thro. From the end of January, till towards the end oi May y the Wind blows almoft perpetually, from the Eafiern and North¬ ern Points, if the Spring is dry 5 and from the Southern and Weftern Points, if the Spring is wet, (and generally from the fetting in of the Winds, on a New- Moony you may predid the Weather of the Spring) and our Bodies moft certain¬ ly attrading, the circumambient Air, and the Fumes of thofe Bodies that are next to us, it will be very convenient for valetudinary, fiudiousy and contem¬ plative Perfons, in a dry Spring, or in Eafterly Windsy to change their Bed¬ chambers into Rooms that have Weftern or Southern Lights, or to fhut clofe up the Eafiern and Northern Lights, or to have them but feldom opened 5 and in wet Seafons, to take the contrary Courfe. And if any finch Perfon, has been much expofed, or long abroad, in a Northerly otbleakifl) Eafterly Wind, it will be very proper for him to drink down, going to Bed, a large Draught of warm Wa¬ ter-gruel, or of warm fmall Mountain- wine Whey, as an Antidote againft the nitrous
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