A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency: together with the method for its prevention and cure / [Thomas Short].

  • Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Date:
1728
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Credit: A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency: together with the method for its prevention and cure / [Thomas Short]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' Corpulency. 79 (7.) Gentle Evacuations are helpful to reduce the Body, therefore corpulent Peo¬ ple fliould always have an open Belly, and ufe gentle Diureticks. (8.) Laftly, Smoking of Tobacco, by ftimulating the Nerves of the Mouth, draws ont much Phlegm from the fali- val Glands, and diminifhes the Fluids. Thele Things put in Practice will not only prevent Corpulency in thofe who are difpofed to it, but reduce very grofs Bodies. FINIS. ERRATA. PAge 10. 1. 22. for defend read diftend. p. ib, /. ult. f. fiery r. fizey. p. 14. /. 10, 11. r. The Moifture and Exhalation from Vegetables is very great, for he found, e?c. p. 15. /, 8, 9. r. And in this Propulfion the Wafte of the Liquor is. p. 17. 1. 8. /. Floods Foods, p. 19. 1. 15 ^ 16. r. fuppofe the Chyle fhould be drained off, and get into the Ladteals, yet will it be. p. $6. /. penult, r. Come fooner to wrinkled Brows. p. 38./. 4. for plaftick, r. ela- ftick. p. 44. /. i. f Trunks, r. Lungs, p. <5 5. /♦ 18. r, Sup- prejfions.