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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    Wine nor ftrong Drink; and flept on the cold Ground. My worthy Friend Mr. Weby is ftill alive. He by the Quicknefs of the Faculties of the Mind, and the Adivity of the Organs of his Body, fhews the great Benefit of a low Diet, living altogether on vegetable Food and pure Element. The Hiftory of the Milk * Dodor of Croydon, who by living on Milk only, cured himfelf of an other- wife incurable Diftemper, viz. the E~ pikpfjj and liv'd in perfed Health for fixteen Years after, till an Accident cut him off, I have already narrated in my Treatife of the Gout. Henry Jenkins a Fifherman, liv'd 169 Years, his Diet was coarfe and fower, as his Hifiorian informs us, that is, plain and cooling, and the Air where he lived fharp and clear, viz. Allerton upon Swale in York¬ shire. Barr died fixteen Years younger, viz. at the age of 15 2 Years, 9 Months 5 his Diet was old Cheefe, Mtlky coarfe Bread, [mail Beer, and Whey : And his Hiftorian tells us, he might have lived a good while longer, if he had not changed his Diet and Air,coming out of a clear, thin, free Air, into the thick Air of London, and after a conflant, plain, and * See an EJfaj on the Gout and Bath Waters.
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