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

  • George Cheyne
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1724
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to digeft than the LandTortoifie; and Sturgeon and Turbit, than Trout or Torch. 5. Other Things being equal, Vegeta¬ bles and Animals that abound in an oily, fat, and glutinous Subftance, arc harder to digeft, than thofe of a dry, flefhy, fibrous Subftance 5 becaufe oily and Subftan- ces elude the Force and Adion of the concodtlve Powers 5 and their Parts at¬ tract one another, and unite more ftrong- ly than other Subftances do, (except Salts) as Sir Ifaac Newton * obferves. Their Softnefis and Humidity relaxes and weak- ens the Force of the Stomach, and the Fat and Oil itfelf is fhut up in little Bladders, that are with Difficulty broken. Thus Nuts of all kinds pafs through the Guts, almoft untouched : Olives are har¬ der to digeft than Teafie 5 fiat fieffi Meat, than the lean of the fame. Cary, Tench, Salmon, Eel, and Turbit, are much harder to digeft than Whiting, Terch, Trout, or Haddock. 6. Vegetables and Animals, all Things elfe being alike, whofe Subftance icwhite, E or * Vide Sir Ifaac Newton’? frfl Engliib Edition of Eight and Colours*
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