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Cleanlinefs of the perfon is of greater importance 

 to health than is generally imagined, and ought to 

 be particularly encouraged among the lower ranks* 

 of people, efpecially thofe employed in this way. 

 Nothing feems more likely to contribute to this fa- 

 lutary purpofe than a due obfervation of Sunday; 

 this precept is not only conducive to religion, mo- 

 rals, and civilization, but alfo to health. It is 



well obferved by Mr. Addison, that Sunday clears 

 away the ruft of the whole week : — an expreffion 

 which may be underftood to extend to cleanlinefs 

 as well as other confederations, and indeed appears 

 to have been fo intended by the amiable author in 

 the paffage referred to. 



On the Cure of the Diseases incident to an 

 Agricultural Life. 



I now come to the laft part of this eflay, which 

 is to fpeak — Of the Cure of the Bifeafes to which 

 Agricultural Perfons are fubjecl from their way of Life: 

 and here I mud remind the reader, that the pre- 

 fent treatife is not meant to be a difcuflion of the 

 fubjecl: at large in a medical way, but only to con- 

 tain fome plain hints and directions of the practical 

 kind, which I believe to be juftifled by reafon and 



experience. 



Perfons 



