An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life.

  • William Falconer
Date:
[1789?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ *7 ] aeat fo nearly at the Hi me time, mud weaken its ane, by overdretching its fibres; and this has ametimes gone to fuch a length as to deprive the :omach of all that power of expelling its contents, ihich foon terminated in death.—To thefe dan- ers ihould be added, that of the meat dicking in le pafiage of the gullet, and remaining there /ithout a poflibility of removal, a thing which is ot uncommon amidd fuch excedes. Even the roper temperature of food is worthy attention* luftick folly has produced wagers and premiums n the eating food nearly boiling hot. It is diffi- uik to preferve any temper in the cenfure of fuch utrageous dupidity. The quality of food is necedary to be confidered, well as its quantity. The domachs of labouring nen are undoubtedly drong, and able to diged oarfe meat; but ill-judged oeconomy fnould not rompt farmers to fet before their fervants decayed r indigedible food. Putrid meat is not merely wwholefome in its remote confequences, but im- mediately dangerous to life, as has been often ex- perienced, and diould be avoided as carefully as <e would any other poifonous fubdances. I have before pointed out the bad confequences aat are apt to refult from the free life of fomc in- igedible fruits, particularly plumbs and nuts. 1 think