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exhalations ; but I apprehend, the intermittent fe- 

 ver is the ufual confequence; the frequent appear- 

 ance of which, in moid and fenny countries, has 

 been univerfally obferved. 



Such are the difeafes to which people employed 

 in hufbandry are occafionally liable from the nature 

 of their occupation. But they are fubject to a much 

 greater number from their own imprudence, of 

 which I fhall next fpeak. 



Diforders to which Perfons employed in Agriculture are 

 liable from their own imprudence. 



AND firft, Of their wanton expofure of them/elves 

 to the vicijfttudes of Heat and Cold. It is no uncom- 

 mon thing for people who work in harveft, when 

 violently heated by the weather and by labour, to 

 drink large draughts of fome cold thin liquor, as 

 water, milk, whey, butter-milk, and fuch like. 

 This, if taken in great quantity, has been fometimes 

 known to fupprefs the powers of life altogether, and 

 to produce an almofl inftant death. 



This however, I believe, feldom happens; but 



the bad effects of this practice appear in other ways 



A a 3 fufficiently 



