BILIOUS anp INTERMITTING FEVERS. 211 
Britain compels every body that dies within the ifland to 
be buried in a woolen fhirt or winding fheet. The law 
would be much wifer if it compelled every body to wear 
woolen garments next to their fkins during life, and linen 
after death. 
3. The diet in the fickly months fhould be generous. 
Wine and beer fhould be the drinks of this feafon inftead 
of fpirits and water. I do not think that fruit and vege- 
tables of any kind produce fevers, but as the feafon of the 
year produces languor and weaknefs, a larger quantity of 
animal food than ufual is beft calculated to oppofe them. 
Salted meat for this reafon is preferable to freth meat. 
Food of all kinds eaten during the fickly months fhould 
be well feafoned. 
4. The evening air fhould be avoided as much as pof- 
fible. There are at prefent few places in Pennfylvania 
where it is fafe to fleep, or even to fet, after the going down 
of the fun, in the fickly months, with the windows open. The 
morning air before the fun rifes, fhould not be breathed, 
until the body has been fortified with a little folid aliment, 
or a draught of bitters. ‘Thefe bitters fhould be made of 
centaury, wormwood, camomile, or the bark of the willow 
or dogwood trees, infufed in water. Bitters made with 
{pirits, or even wine, cannot be taken in a fufficient quan- 
tity to do fervice, without producing intoxication, or the 
deadly habit of loving and drinking fpirituous liquors. 
5. Too much cannot be faid in favour of cleanlinefs, 
as a means of preventing fevers. ‘The body fhould be 
bathed or wafhed frequently. It has been proved that in 
the highlands of Jamaica adding falt to water, renders it 
more powerful in preventing difeafes when applied to the 
body. Equal pains fhould be taken to promote cleanli- 
nefs in every {pecies of apparel. Offal matters, efpecially 
thofe which are of a vegetable nature, fhould be removed 
from the neighbourhood of a dwelling houfe. The dung 
of domeftic animals during its progrefs towards manure 
may 
