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drinking, the use of spirits, tobacco, &c. &c. 

 But it often happens that wrestling, when it 

 does not produce all the mischief, unites with 

 other causes to produce it ; but sometimes it 

 does the whole. In fact no person can use his 

 joints with great violence, either in wrestling 

 or in hard labor, without suffering from it, 

 especially when he becomes old, if he lives to 

 see old age ; which, by the way, is not very 

 common. 



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