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HAP. VI. 



Of the Difference betivixt our Animal and InteUeHual Natures. Thefe 



tivo often at 'variance ujitb one another. — I'he Intelle5lual o-rouus 

 and is nourifhed at the Expcnce of the Animal. — The Caufes of our 

 Body declining in the Ci'vil State. — What is from God and Nature 



cannot he impronjed^ hut is made ivorfe by Human Art. The 



Change of Diet of Men has hurt their Bodies more than Clothes 

 Hoifes, or the Ufe of Fire. — Of the Eating of Fleflo—frfi beo-un 

 by hunters^ — does not make Mcnfronger, but the contrary. -^Flefjj 

 if eaten at all^ ought to be eaten raiv. — F'ven our Veo-etable Food 

 not ivholefome. — Of the Ufe of Wine. — More pernicious -when drunk 

 pure, than ivhen mixed ivith Water. — Of exceffiue Venery of dif^ 

 ferent Kinds, particularly iu the Eaf. — Of the Drinking of Spirits. 

 — This, the mofl pernicious of all Vices— fuppreffed by the Britifh 

 Legifature, and refored. — Difeafes ^without Names or Numbers 

 produced by thofe Vices. — Manufaflures, and other Sedentary Arts 



ha<ve had Effefls upon the Health and Strength of the People. 



— 'This appears from the Bills of Mortality. — Of Pcflilential Difea- 

 fes, ijuhich have come from the Eaf, the native Country of fuch Dif- 

 eafes.^- A fnof remarkable one in the Ifland of Sumatra, in the Year 

 ^11 S' — ^f ^^^ Leprofy. — Of the Small Pox. — Of the Venereal Dif- 



eafe — that Difeafe not from the Weft Indies, but from Africa. Of 



the Ufe of Opium and Betle. — Of Tobacco. — Of the Pernicious Ef- 

 JeBs of great Toivns upon the Health of the Inhabitants-. — This ap- 

 pears from the Bills of Mortality. — Of the Indigence in rich Coun- 



Y 2 tries. 



