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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    ::;Vl CHAP. II. Of Meat and Drink, i. HIT10 have our Food\ that is, our j| Meat and Drink, as to Quan¬ tity and Quality duly regulated, and pre- cifely adjufted to our cone oft ive ‘Powers, would be of the utmoft Confequence to Health and Long Life. Our Bodies re¬ quire only a determinate Quantity there¬ of, to fupply the Exfences of living : and a juft Proportion of that to thefe would very probably preferve us from acute, moft certainly from chronicalDiftempers, and enable us to live, without much Sick- nefs and Pain, fo long as our Cqnftitu- tions were originally made to laft. The Sources of chronical Diftempers are firft Vifcidity in the juices, or the Over- largenefs of their conftituent Particles, which not being fufficiently broken, by the concoflive Powers, flop or retard the Circulation $ or7fecondly, too great abun¬ dance of fharp and acrimonious Salts, D z whereby
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