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ing before they have taken fome kind of food. 

 Somewhat warm is mod proper, and if it can be 

 had, I ihould prefer animal food. It is difficult to 

 account for, but true as a fact, that warm victuals 

 are greatly more cordial and flrengthening to the 

 body, and of courfe more fit for the fupport of thole 

 who perform laborious work, than the fame food if 

 taken when cold, 



Cleanlinefs is an effential article in fuch circum- 

 flances. Would thofe who work at fuch employ- 

 ments be careful to wafh their hands and feet at 

 their return from work, and to change their linen 

 and (lockings as often as their circumftances would 

 admit, it is probable that the hazard would be 

 greatly lefTened. 



It is necefifary to remark, that the above cautions 

 apply at lead equally ftrong to thofe who fuper- 

 intcnd fuch operations, as to thofe who actually 

 perform them. It is probable that the labour of 

 body and attention of mind, which occupy thofe 

 who are at work, is no fmall prefervative againft 

 the accefs of contagion of every kind. 



As there is reafon to believe, that intermittent 



fevers may in fome cafes be fo far infectious as to 



be communicated from one perfon to another, it 



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