2 $ 
TRAVELLING, &c. 
ferent province men are fubjed to peculiar 
difeafes, which arife in a great meafure from 
the different kinds of food, that prevail among 
them. He will np doubt hence be empower- 
ed to affign the true caufes •, why the Norlan-. 
der is infeded with the fcurvy, and why the 
Laplander on the contrary is free from it : 
why the fame Laplander is fubjed to thofe ter- 
rible gripes, called by them ullem •, why the 
Gothlander is chiefly afllided with the hypo-, 
chondriacal colic ; why the Weft-Bothnians* 
■yvho are more prolific than any other people 
in our part of the world, lpfe moft of their 
children in th.e cradle; why fo many people 
are liable to the epilepfy in the territory of 
Yerns, for the caufe is flight in appearance,: 
but very fingular in its nature. 
Why almotl all the males in Orfobaea dye 
of confumptions before the age of 30. 
To enumerate all the things, which we have 
particular opportunities of obferving in rela- 
tion to thefe affairs in our countrey, would re- 
quire no finprt tr.eatife. 
I am fully perfuaded that it is abfolutely ne- 
ceffary for the young phyfician to travel thro’ 
his own countrey, were it only for this rea- 
fon, that relying upon his own ftrength he 
might 
