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fweated well,- and about an hour after the whole 

 perfpiration is performed. If this method of 

 fweating is continued during fome days, you 

 find yourfelf fo much eafed, that your ftrength 

 and appetite return, and you are furprifed to fee 

 yourfelf fo light and fo nimble ; for by the per- 

 fpiration all the vtfcera are perfedly cleared of 

 all their fuperfluities, without pain or any vio- 

 lence done to nature, which the ordinary medi- 

 cines cannot do. In order to be healthy, this 

 ought to be done thrice in the year, viz, iq 

 fpring, autumn, and in winter. 



^My conclufion is, that diet, perfpiration, and 

 fweating compofe an univerfal medicine. 



Therefore I fay, that nature fhould direft us 

 in all things •, from her we mufl learn the true 

 means of preferving health, which fhe orders us 

 to do upon pain of the greateft evils, and even 

 of death. I have already told you, that the 

 frequent exercifes of the Indians of North AmerU 

 ca^ fuch as dancing, playing at ball, hunting, 

 filhing, and fighting, increafe their natural heat 

 fo much, that it drives all the fuperfluities out of 

 their bodies by perfpiration. y^hy do the pea- 



fants 



