Sea diseases: or, a treatise of their nature, causes, and cure. Also, an essay on bleeding in fevers; shewing, the quantities of blood to be let, in any of their periods / [W. Cockburn].

  • Cockburn, W. (William), 1669-1739
Date:
1706
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sea diseases: or, a treatise of their nature, causes, and cure. Also, an essay on bleeding in fevers; shewing, the quantities of blood to be let, in any of their periods / [W. Cockburn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bread. [ *8 ] defign, in the order it offers it felf to our Confideration. is their Bread, of which every Man is allow’d one Pound a day. Mo¬ derate eating of Bread has in all Ages been efteemed to contribute very much to the prefervation of our Health, tho’ none have ap¬ prov’d of Quantities. Omnis Re¬ -let io mala, panis peffima,; a forfeit of any thing is bad, but one of Bread is the worft: Its fubftance is tough and tenacious; and therefore is not fo eafily broken and divided by the Stomach, and if Eaten at any time in a greater quantity, than is fu-ffiU cient to give a Body to the Chyle, is very apt to make way for Ob- ftru&ions, and to breed very thick and grofs humours. But an entire abftinence from Bread deprives the Chyle of that due and neceffary Body, that is requifite to make its paffage flow enough thro’ the Guts, that it may be the better thruft into the indifcernible doors of the luffed