lizcd nations ,• and there is the ftrongeft prefump^ 

 tion, that it is alfo the npoft advantageous to culti* 

 vate.;, but this would be a mofl cruel miftake, if it 

 vfere fo unwholefortie a- food as Monf. Linguet 

 affirms. 



I am not an enthufiaftic admirer of bread : I have 

 even faid that bad bread only, or the wrong ufe of 

 it, may be hurtful. 1 alfo added, that in fome 

 langui filing diforders, even the beft bread ought to 

 be wfed with: moderation ^ and thcFe is no other 

 food that may mot be liable to the iame objedlions. 

 But it is nevertheless jrue, that of all foods, wheaten- 

 hread, well made, is the moft wholeibme; and I am 

 too much attached to the prefervation, the health 

 and the happinefs of the people, to be fufpedled of 

 having given any advice on thcfe three important 

 fubjeds, without due-confideration. 



You will fee ire tfee fixth- voKime of my Differ* 

 ration on Nervous Complaints, all that I have 

 written to difiliade them from the ufe of I'Ergot,* 

 a- grain certainly poifonous, which fome able phyfi- 

 cians (deceived by fuperficial obfervations) efleemed 

 awholefome food, and which- might be ufed with- 

 out riilv. 



•■ Spur-corn^ 



I write 



