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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    ‘ho perform laborious work; but this healthy pro- i ortion is apt, when opportunity offers, to be ex- , ;eded by people whofe gratifications are few in i amber and of rare occurrence. As it is imprac- l table to prevent fuch exceffes altogether, I would ifh to fjggefl:, that, if they muft take place, malt ]uor is found by experience to be much lefs inju- ous to the health and conftitudon than diftilled irits, however diluted with water. I have been informed, that a principle of oeco- omy has induced many farmers to treat their fer- .nts, and thofe with whom they are conneded, ith fpirits and water, inftead of malt liquor; but ch a practice is by all means to be difcouraged, fpirits are much more inflammatory than malt inks, and produce more readily obftruCtions and flammatory diforders, efpecially of the liver and efentery. The temporary delirium of intoxica- Dn that they produce, is faid to be much more olent and outrageous, and of courfe more dan- rrous, than what follow's from taking too large a -jantity of malt liquor. The deftrucflive effects of irituous liquors were fo obfervable fome years ;o, as to produce the moft ferious apprehenfions a national view, and to attra<ffc the notice of the ^iflature. The baptifms of London alone are id to have been reduced from twenty thoufand mually to fourteen thoufand, which was with reafon