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of the bread, which oftener owe their rife among the 

 common people to this than any other caufe. 



Neglect of changing their clothes when wet, is 

 alfo a great fource of diforder among hufbandmen. 

 To remain in wet clothes when the body is at reft:, 

 fubjects the perfon who is fo imprudent as to fuffer 

 it, to the united bad effects of cold and moifture. 

 Much worfe confequences may however be ex- 

 pected, when they who are heated by labour lie 

 down to deep, as they often do, in their wet clothes. 

 The diminution of the force of the circulation and 

 other powers of life, which always takes place du- 

 ring fleep, caufes the bad effects of cold to operate 

 with much greater danger to health and life. This 

 hazard is much aggravated, if they add to this im- 

 prudence by flecping on the wet ground. This not 

 only communicates an additional moifture and cold, 

 but is perhaps ftill more prejudicial from the nature 

 of the exhalation. It is the opinion of a phyfician 

 of the greatcft eminence, that the vapour which 

 arifes from moid earth is the caufe of the moft dan- 

 gerous fevers. Thofe, therefore, who put them- 

 felves wantonly in the way of fuch danger, are guilty 

 of little lefs than fuicide. 



ExcefSy or Irregularity in Diet, is another fource 

 of diforder to people in this way of life. This is 



common 



