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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    So op, high Sauces, Bakingy Smoaking, Salting, and Bickling, are the Inventions of Luxuryy to force an unnatural Appe¬ tite, and encreafe the Load, which Na¬ ture, without Incentives from ill Habits, and a vicious Palate, will of itfelf make more than fufficient for Health and long Life. Abftinence and proper Evacua¬ tions, due Labour and Exercife, will al¬ ways recover a decayed Appetite, fo long as there is any Strength and Fund in Na¬ ture to go upon. And 'tis fcarce allow- ble to provoke an Appetite, with medi¬ cinal Helps, but where the digeftive Fa¬ culties have been lpoiled and ruined by acute or tedious chronical Diftempers. And as foon as *tis recovered to any to¬ lerable Degree, Nature is to be left to its own Work, without any Spurs from Cookery or Thyfick. 4. The next Confederation is the fpuantity of Food that is necelfary to fupport Nature, without overloading it, in a due Plight : That is indeed various, according to the Age, Sex, Nature, Strength, and Country the Party is of, and the Exercife he ufes. In thefe Nor¬ thern Countries, the Coldnefs of the Air, the Strength and large Stature of People,
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