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4. Clothing. 



3. Habitation. 



0. Exercise of the mind. 



7. Exercise of the body, 



8. Sleep. 



9. Anuiscmcnts. 



10. Habits. 



11. Temper, or disposition. And 



12. Medicine. 



To which will be added, several rules of a imscellaneoif^ 

 ■nature, concerning the means of alleviating the effects of 

 the various accidents to which persons are exposed ; toge- 

 ther with observations on the necessitv of adhering to dif- 

 ferent ruleSj according to climate, peculiar occupations, &:c. 



Part HI. 

 Regulations for the health of the commiinity . 



It is in vain, however, that either nature has formed an 

 individual for long life, or that he observes all those rules 

 which are ui'cessary for the preservation of health, unless 

 attention be paid by the government of a country, to the 

 happiness and safety of its subjects. This is a point which 

 has seldom been attended to in the manner in which its im- 

 portance deserves. While the attention of lawgivers is 

 •unceasingly directed to a variety of less important objects, 

 those regulations on which the safety ol' the people at large 

 depends arc unfortunately neglected. Yet what can be 

 more pernicious than to suffer the climate of a country, for 

 instance, to continue noxious to the health of its inhabi- 

 tants, merely for want of drainage, cultivation, and im- 

 provement, when thousands of instances mig;ht be adduced 

 of the advantages which have resulted from the adoption of 

 an opposite system ? VVhat can be more impolitic than to 

 permit unwholesome provisions and other articles to be 

 sold, without punishing those who thus attempt to injure 

 the health, perhaps to destroy the existence, of their fellow- 

 creatures i" VVhat more danirerous, than to permit public 

 anmsemcnts of a pernicious nature ; to authorize improper 

 customs ; to neglect the education of youth, when the 

 foundation ought to be laid of their future health and 

 strength ; to sufler public institutions to become Tlic semi- 

 naries of disease; to disregard the safety of those who are 

 trained for the public defence; to sanction the sale of noxi- 

 ous or doubtful medicines; and, above all, to pernut the 

 least risk of contagious disorders being admilled iu'') :i 

 countrv, by whiih its whole popidation iua\- be afl'fciLd ? 

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