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fometimes produces may generally be obviated. If 

 thofe who are Wet with fhowers, would be careful 

 to continue their motion and labour whilft they re- 

 main in the open air, and to change their clothes on 

 their return home, many of the bad confequences of 

 wet clothes would be prevented. Friction on fuch 

 occafions might be an excellent prefervative againft 

 the bad effects of cold and moifture : were the body 

 and extremities that have been fo expofed, rubbed 

 ftrongly for a quarter of an hour with a coarfe 

 woollen or linen cloth, immediately on the wet 

 clothes being ftripped off, it is probable few bad 

 confequences would follow from the accident. 



It is indeed extraordinary this fhould not be 

 oftener practifed in fuch circumftances than it is. 

 Every labouring man knows the necejftty of rub- 

 bing horfes that have been wet and dirty, and this 

 not only for the purpofe of cleanfing away the filth, 

 but alfo for that of preferving a due perfpiration 

 and regular warmth on the furface of the body,. 

 Bathing the feet in warm weather would alfo be an 

 ufeful precaution on fuch occafions, efpecially to 

 thofe who are fubject to purging and other diforders 

 of the bowels. 



Labouring men are fometimes expofed to moif- 

 ture of alefs innocent kind than fuch as falls from 



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