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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    them, the Chyle is too grofs, andthzper¬ forator y Matter is (topped, becaufe too large for thefe fmali Dulls; and this whole Mafs, which in common Health is more than double of the grofs Evacua¬ tions, recoils in upon the Bowels, and becomes, as it were, Spears, and Darts, and Armour to the Air received from without 5 which being thus Sharpened with the Salts of the unconcoBed Food, to¬ gether with its own elaftick Force, pierces the Sides of the Veffels, and gets into ali the Cavities of the Body, and be¬ tween the Mufcles and their Membranes, and there, in Time, brings forth hypo- chondriackj hyfierick, nervous, and va¬ pourish Diforders, and all that black Train of Evils fuch Conftitutions fuffer under. I fhall now draw out the Cautions here inculcated into a few general Rules. General
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