Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &C. Selected from the Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Volume 4) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1792 Excerpt: ... Cleanliness of the person is of greater importance to health than is generally imagined, and ought to be particularly encouraged among the lower rank of people, especially those employed in this way. Nothing seems more likely to contribute to this salutary purpose than a due observation of Sunday; this precept is not only conducive to religion, morals, and civilization, but also to health.-It is well observed by Mr. Addison, that Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week: --an expression which may be understood to extend to cleanliness as well as other considerations, and indeed appears to have been so intended by the amiable author in the passage referred to. On the Cure of the Diseases incident to an Agricultural Life. I now come to the last part of this essay, which is to speak--Of the Cure of the Diseases to which Agricultural Persons are subject from their way of Use: and here I must remind the reader, that the present treatise is not meant to be a discussion of the subject at large in a medical way, but only to contain some plain hints and directions of the practical kind, which I believe to be justified by reason and experience. Persons Persons employed in daily labour of a healthy kind, and living on coarse food, naturally become robyst and athletic, of a firm fibre and dense blood. Hence inflammatory complaints are in such habits more common than, those of the putrid kind; and such as are attended with low spirits and other hypochondriacal symptoms, are rarely met with. Evacuations may of course be used with more sasety among such people than among the effeminate inhabitants of populous towns. Bleeding in the fevers that occur among country people, is for the most part necessary, especially in such as are attended with local inflammation, as ple..