Directions tending to health and long life, &c / [Timothy Byfield].

  • Byfield, T. (Timothy)
Date:
1717]
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Credit: Directions tending to health and long life, &c / [Timothy Byfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glut the Stomach •, the other accelerate the Food too foon,making itpafs crude, and ill di- gefted,Claret corrugates theStomach,ftrength- ens its tone, moderately warms; and lb retains the Food, and helps a good Concoftion. But young Perfons, whofe Stomachs are warm and ftrong, need not this help. Nay , Wine is hurtful for ’em. The too early ufeof Wine and ftrong Drinks does ruin thousands by devouring natural Heat, and fif ing the Blood into Feverifli Frets and Confumptions. l J _ ; ; ' < 1 01, - ' ’ The creating of falfe Appetites with Wine and other ftrong Liquors, in the firft ufe of ’em, provoke to Gluttony, and after that weaken and deftroy the Stomach. For, befides the preying on the Vital Fire and radical moifture ^ they relax the fibrous Folds of the Stomach, and incline to a naufcea, and Reachings, next to fpewing, and to Diarrheas, and Fluxes, and many nafty Di- , ftempers. Now to remedy luch vitiated Sto¬ machs , take my S. V.O. in plenty* I know nothing better. You rnay obferve that cool, fat, tnoift Bo¬ dies will bear hunger better than lean, dry, cholerick, hot Bodies, which perfpire much; Yet