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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    [ 3° ] rcafon afcribed to the ufe of this pernicious be- verage:—This fad; is equivalent to a thoufand arguments! On this fubject I would wifh to fay a few words on the debauchery that ufually attends county elections, efpecially fuch as are contefted. Much has been faid of late years on the fubje6 of inftru&ing Members of Parliament. No ccn-i dition would be more juftifiable than to demanci of all the candidates a promife that they woulc not, by encouraging debauchery, ruin the health deftroy the induftry, and corrupt the morals, 0( thofe people for whofe intereft they profefs fuel- an anxious concern, and to whofe fervice they are fo profoundly devoted. I believe it will not bi thought going too far to affirm, that very few in- deed have it in their power to repair, by any poli-i tical conduct of their own, the mifehief done by; contefted eleflion. No combination among th< eledors could be more truly patriotic, than om which tended to refufe fupport to every candidati that attempted to promote his intereft by fuel means. In the former part of this effiiy, I have mentionec fome of the ill effefifcs that follow violent exertion of labour or exercife, which I truft are fufficicnt t< ftiew the imprudence of fuch drained efforts. . lliall only add here, that fuch trials fhould not b encouragec