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.

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824.
Date:
[1789?]
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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 ] ,, avoided, as far as refpe&s their becoming habitual II have more than once feen a habit of this odious kind introduced among women, particularly by thefe means. It is not fo likely to happen to the . lower ranks, as to thofe who employ them, for whom : this caution is principally meant. The laft piece of advice I fhall offer refpects | Quackery. Perhaps there is nothing difgraces the police of this country, more than the numerous impofitions : of this kind that are daily advertifed. Scarcely any one of them has not only a greater certainty of fuc- cefs afcribed to it, but is alledged to be infallible in a greater variety of diforders than are curable by all the articles of the Materia Medica taken colle&ively. Some of thefe boafted remedies are merely frivo- * lous and inert, but others are violent and dangerous in their operation, and highly improper to be trufted to fuch perfons as thofe who are thus rafhly en- couraged to take them in an indifcriminate manner. A folution of arfenick is faid to have been the bafis of a late fpecifick for fevers, and I am well informed has in feveral inftances deftroyed the patient. Thefe inftances, however, are carefully concealed, whilft every efcape is carefully recited as a cure, owing to the remedy fo given. No