6 24 guthrie on the Antifeptic Regimen 
feafon, the cold prevents them from airing this habita- 
tion, fo that you may eafily conceive, that the air cannot 
he very pure, confi dering that four, five, or fix people eat 
and deep krone room, and undergo, during the night, a 
moft ftewing procefs from the heat and clofenefs of their 
fituation ; infomuch that they have the appearance of 
being dipped in water, and raife a fteam and fmeli in the 
■room, not offenfive to themfelves, but fcarcely fupporta- 
ble to the perfon whom curiofity may lead thither. 
! Now if it be confidered, that this human effluvium 
-muff adhere to every thing in the room, efpecially to the 
fheep fkirrs or mattrafs on which they lleep, the mofs in 
the walls, &c. and that the apartment ismever ventilated 
for fix months at leaft; at the fame time that thefe people 
are living occafionally upon fait fifh or meat, and the 
•whole time without frefh vegetables, expofed likewife 
when out of doors to a fevere cold atmofphere, the fcor- 
butic tendency of which is well known: I fay, when all 
thefe circumftanees are taken into confideration, if it be 
a fa£t that they are, in fpite of all -thofe pre-difpofing 
caufes, ftrangers to putrid dileafe, it will fufficiently jus- 
tify my firff: aflertion, that the regimen nature has 
didlated to thefe people is moft highly antifeptic, and it 
may be doing fervice to. mankind to defcribe it rpinutely. 
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