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others, they have made their way through different 

 parts of the body, and caufed either a long and 

 painful illnefs, or death, by the hectick fever attend- 

 ing internal fuppurations. 



Pears, if eaten too freely, are apt, as well as the 

 flone-fruits, to diforder the ftomach and bowels j 

 but they are lefs dangerous, and not fo often fwal- 

 lowed in fuch quantities as to be materially preju- 

 dicial to life or health. 



Nuts are perhaps, upon the whole, the moft dan- 

 gerous of any of the fruits that are likely to fall into 

 the way of this rank of people. When eaten in 

 large quantity, they have been often known to lodge 

 in the ftomach, and to be incapable of being re- 

 moved from thence by any medicine, and of con- 

 fequence have put a fpeedy end to life. When 

 taken in lefs quantity, they are found to opprefs the 

 breathing, and to produce vomiting and bowel 



complaints. Hoffman obferves, that dyfenteric 



complaints are always moft common in thofe years 

 in which the harveft of nuts is plentiful. Excefs in 

 diet, however, is more frequently committed in 

 liquids than in folids. 



It is obferved of mankind in general, that they 

 have a natural fondnefs for fermented or fpirituous 



liquors, 



