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_ Labourers in the hot feafon are apt to lie down and fleep im the fun: This prac: 
tice is fo dangerous, that they often wake in a burning fever, Thefe ardent fevers, 
which prove fo fatal about the end of fummer and beginning of autumn, are free 
quently occafioned by thisimeans, Fevers of a very bad kind are often occafioned 
among labourers by poor living. When the body is not fufficiently nourifhed, the 
humours become vitiated, and the folids weak ; from whence the moft fatal conse. 
quences enfue. Poor living is likewife productive of many of thofe cutancous dit 
eafes fo frequent among the lower clafsof people. It is remarkable that cattle, when. 
pinched in their food, are generally affected with difeafes of the fkin, which feldom 
fail to difappear when they are put upon a good pafture. This fhews how much a 
good ftate of the humours depends upon a-fufficient quantity of propernourifhment, 
Poverty not only occafions, but aggravates, many of the difeafes of the laborious, 
and makes them miferable indeed. Here the godlike virtue of charity ought always 
toexert itfelf. To relieve the induftrious poor in diftrefs, is furely the moft exalted 
act of religion and humanity. They alone, who are witnelles of thofe feenes of ca. 
lamity, can form a notion of what numbers perifh in difeafes, for*want of proper af 
fiftance, and even for want of the neceflaries of life. ~ Chon ody SBM 
Soldiers fuffer many hardthips from the inclemency of feafons, long marches, bad 
provifions, hunger, watching, unwholefome climates, bad water, &c. Thele oc- : 
cafion fevers, fluxes, rheumatifms, and other fatal difeafes, which generally do great- 
er execution than the fword, efpecially when campaigns are continued too late in the 
year. A few weeks of cold rainy weather will often prove more fatal than an ¢n- 
gagement... Sailors may alfo be numbered amongit the laborious. They undergo 
great hardhips from change of climate, the violence of the weather, hard labour, 
8c... One great fource of the difeafes of fea-faring people is excels, When they get 
on hore, after having been long at fea, without regard to the climate, or their own 
conttitutions, they plunge headlong into all manner of riot, and even perfit till a 
exes ag yee and not the climate, is often the 
feyer putsan endto their lives, Thusintemperance, ane not & ried ote ia 
caufe why fo many of our brave failors die on foreign coals. Such prople ought 
not to live 00 low but hey would find movrain the Belt defence sgn fever 
pe SE as ne, Se gs : i if due attention were pax 
pile, they would be Reema ne ee its ug uum 
leéted wery reverie, WU DRDPEDS. chal tana ens” BPS ew: 
se ee acy eon contrary ihebealhand ature of man chan a fdemany 
‘life, yet this clafs comprehends the far 
greater part of the {pecies. Almott the wi 
‘female world, and, in manufacturing countries, the major part of the males 
SWOPE e Gh fedentary employments are_neceflz 
_seckoned fedentary. But, though fedentary employimsn "oS 4 
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