An Essay of Health and Long Life ...George Strahan, 1724 - 232 Seiten |
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Seite 30 - St. Anthony lived to 105 years on mere bread and water, adding only a few herbs at last.
Seite 4 - Wantonnefs, is equally beneath the Dignity of human Nature, and contrary to the Homage we owe to the Author of our Being.
Seite 32 - His diet was coarse bread, milk, cheese, whey and small beer; and his historian tells us, that he might have lived a good while longer if he had not changed his diet and air ; coming out of a clear thin...
Seite xliv - A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers: wherein besides the appearances of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explain'd. To which is prefix'd an essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine.
Seite 42 - Without all peradventure, water was the primitive, original beverage, as it is the only simple fluid, fitted for diluting, moistening, and cooling ; the ends of drink appointed by nature. And happy had it been for the race of mankind if other mixed and artificial liquors had never been invented. It has been an agreeable...
Seite 28 - ... nastiness, we know, will putrefy the juices, and corrupt the muscular substance of human creatures — and sure they can do no less in brute animals — and thus make our food poison. The same may be said of hot-beds, and forcing plants and vegetables. The only way of having sound and healthful animals, is to leave them to their own natural liberty in the free air, and their own proper element, with plenty of food and due cleanliness;, and a shelter from the injuries of the weather, whenever...
Seite 34 - an ordinary Stature, following no laborious Employment, undue Plight, Health and Vigour' should consume the following quantity of food and liquid - '8 Ounces of Flesh Meat, 12 of Bread, or Vegetable Food, and about a Pint of Wine, or other generous Liquor in 24 Hours'.
Seite 188 - London, force ihe various vegetables : but that time of the year in which by nature and common culture, and the mere operation of the Sun and Climate, they are in most plenty and perfection.
Seite 198 - Litter r, were fed upon an equal Quantity of Milk ; only, to one of them, the Milk was mixt with the fame Quantity of Water. After a Month's feeding, they were both killed, and that which had the Water, was found much larger and fatter than the other.
Seite 86 - He wisely foresaw that animal food and artificial liquors would naturally contribute toward this end ; and indulged or permitted the generation that was to plant the earth again after the flood the use of...