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quantities of hot diluents, made still hotter 

 with the addition of cayenne pepper. 



Secondly, — Sleep. — You ought most care- 

 fully to avoid sleeping in low, damp, or 

 marshy places. Sleep always, if you can, in 

 the most elevated and dry situations and 

 apartments ; and never, if you can avoid it, 

 in bed-rooms, the windows of which are in 

 a direction that admits the land wind, more 

 especially if that wind blows over neighbour- 

 ing marshes or swamps. During the rainy 

 season you should have a fire at night in your 

 room. Always take care that the bed on 

 which you rest is dry and well aired. The 

 quantity of clothes on your bed should 

 neither be too few nor too many: if the 

 latter, you will be restless and fatigued; if 

 the former, you will be more liable to be 

 invaded by the causes of disease: you must 

 be regulated in this by your feelings. " 



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