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ferent province men are fubjed to peculiar 

 difeafes, which arife in a great meafurc from 

 the different kinds of food, that prevail among 

 them. He will no doubt hence be empower- 

 ed to afllgn the true caufcs •, why the Norlan-- 

 der is infedted with the fcurvy, and why the 

 Laplander on the contrary is free from it : 

 why the fame Laplander is fubjed to thofe ter- 

 rible gripes, called by them ullem •, why the 

 Gothlander is chiefly afflidted with the hypo- 

 chondriacal colic ; v/hy the Wefl-Bothnians, 

 who are more prolific than any other people 

 in our part of the world, lofe moil of their 

 children in the cradle -, why fo many people 

 are liable to the epilepfy in the territory of 

 Verns, for the caufe is (light in appearance, 

 but very fingular in its nature. 



Why almoU all the males in Orfobsea dye 

 of confumptions before the age of 30. 



To enumerate all the things, which we have 

 particular opportunities of obferving in rela- 

 tion to thefe affairs in our countrey, would re- 

 quire no fhort treatife. 



I am fully perfuaded that it is abfolutely ne- 

 cefTary for the young phyfician to travel thro^ 

 his own countrey, were it only for this rca- 

 fon, that relying upon his own ftrength he 



might 



