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frequent than deplorable, ef pecially among the 
loweft order of females! When women of better | 
birth and education are innocently betrayed into 
this unfortunate habit, it generally happens from 
anxiety of mind, occafioned by the mifcondué or 
cruel treatment of thofe of the oppofite fex, who 
ought to have been the trufty guardians of their | 
health and morals. 
Another frequent, though unfufpeced caufe of 
this abufe, efpecially among the inferior clafs of 
women, is the immoderate ufe of tea, This relax. 
ing beverage poured down hot, as it generally is, at 
leaft twice a day, tends to unnerve the female frame, 
and produce univerfal languor. The natural {pirits 
being depreffed, recourfe is imprudently had to ar- 
tificial ones, the property of which is, firft, to wind 
up the {prings of the animal machine far above 
their natural pitch, then fuddenly to let them down 
as far below it: hence it is that each glafs of {pirits 
foon requires two more to obviate its own bad 
effects, and the remedy at length is difcovered to 
be ten-fold worfe than the difeafe! 
Habitual dram-drinkers are not only fhort-lived, 
but contract a variety of difeafes which embitter all 
the enjoyments that render life defirable. To enu- 
merate their manifold fufferings would require a 
volume! Suffice it to obferve in general, that the 
liver being obftru&ed, and the conftitution enfee- 
bled; they commonly firft fall into a jaundice; this - 
gradually 
