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flood to heiitate a moment in pronouncing 

 fucii fliddcn deaths to be generally occafioned 

 by the means already afligned : the phyfical 

 procefs of which .repullion of perfpirative 

 matter, and its efFefts upon various habits, 

 are too minutely explained under the heads 

 of different difeafes, in many parts of our 

 former volume, to render further difquifitiou 

 in the leaft neceffary. 



For my own part, ever open to intclledlual 

 improvement and conllantly courting con- 

 vidlion, I mod anxioufly wifh to be informed, 

 through the channel of fyftematic impartia- 

 lity, what can be hoped, wijhed, or expected 

 from a proceeding fo entirely new ; that can- 

 not be more conliftently obtained by the ut- 

 moft extent of friclion properly perfevered in, 

 with the ufual modes of wisping, brush- 

 ing, and CLEANING, as in general ufe in 

 almoft every flable of uniformity in the king- 

 dom. Nor can I at all conceive, as every 

 thing that can be required relative to condi- 

 tion, labour, and appearance is to be effeded 

 by means diverted of danger, why fuch un« 

 juftifiablc modes need be brought into prac- 

 tice, without a fingle coniiilent idea to juftify 



their 



