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Excerpt from Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthy Life: With Means of Correcting a Bad Constitution The fiomach and bowels are continually labouring to digeflz, that is, to grind and reduce the; food into a kind of milk, call ed chyle; this, carried by mil lions of little pipes into the blood-vefl'els, is there, by the unceafing motion of the heart and arteries, converted into blood, and circulated through out all parts of the body, to re pair the confiantly.wearing fo lids, to recruit the ever wafting fluids, and tofurnifh a feafon able and friendly fupply to the ceafelefs confumptionof nature. From this fketch of the body and its laws, it plainly appears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.