The natural method of cureing the diseases of the body and the disorders of the mind depending on the body. In three parts. Part. I, Reflections on the nature and cure of particular chronical distempers / [George Cheyne].

  • Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743
Date:
1742
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Credit: The natural method of cureing the diseases of the body and the disorders of the mind depending on the body. In three parts. Part. I, Reflections on the nature and cure of particular chronical distempers / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be nourift/dy perfjyirey refpirey and fecrete in ‘ its adult State, according to-the Nature and Qualities of what it takes in ft'om the Juices and Fluids about it, and next to it, whatever they be, and however convey'd into its Habit ^nd Subitance. 8. In order to be nourifh'd for fometimc, and perform the animal FunBionSy that is, to livCy there feems to be no other Condition abfolutely neceflary, but that the Size of the nourifliing Particles be no greater than what will eafily enter and pafs from the receiving Orifices to the excretory Orifices 5 or that.the nourilhing Particles be no bigger than the Mouths of the vafa inhalantia & exhalantia^ for were they bigger, it won d neceffarily creat Obftrudions, Pain, and at lafl: F)eathy or the Deftrudion of the Machin , it may be lefSy n any given Proportion 5 but it muft not be greater 5 elfe it can neither txadily enter, nor prompt the animal Fundions without VioleiK^e and Pain. 5), To prevent Inconveniencies that may often happen from the and divifible Na^ turc of grofs Matter, from Accidents, from the Unfmtablenefs of the nearefl Fluid, to perform the neceffary Fundions of living in Animalctiles for any time, we fee what an In¬ finitude of organisd Particles of Matter, fitted Jor living in proper Circumftances, the Author