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anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which 

 employments of a more precarious and cafual na- 

 ture are fubject. Nor is it the lead advantage to 

 health, accruing from fuch a way of life, that it 

 expofes thofe who follow it to fewer temptations to 

 vice than perfons who live in crouded fociety. The 

 accumulation of numbers always augments in fome 

 meafure moral corruption, and the confequences 

 to health of the various vices incident thereto, are 

 well known. 



Diforders to which Agricultural Perfons are Jubjecl 

 from the Nature of their Employment. 



THE life of hufbandmen and farmers, though 

 in general healthy, has, like other fituations, fome 

 circumitances attending it which produce diforders. 

 Thefe may be confidered in feveral points of view, 

 according to their caufes. 



Firft, then, the nature of their employment often 

 expofes fuch perfons to the viciflltudes of weather, 

 Thefe, perhaps, may be of many very different 

 kinds, when confidered with regard to the changes 

 n the nature of the atmofphere > but this is an en- 

 quiry too deep and obfcure for a popular treatife, 

 ike the prefent, and I (hall only take notice of 

 fuch as are obvious and certain. Thefe are three 

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