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 / By William Falconer.

  • William Falconer
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 / By William Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *3 ] th>fe fruits are devoured, efpecially at their firft coming in, caufes many of the ft ones to be fwal- loweda pra&ice extremely hazardous. The hiftory ofphyfic affords many examples of the worft: confequences arifing from fuch bodies lodging inf the ftomach and bowels. Sometimes, when the accumulation of them has been confiderable, they have obftrudted the alimentary canal altogether^ and produced a miferable death in a fhort time; at others, they have made their way through different parts of the body, and caufed either a long and painful illnefs, or death, by the he&ic fever attend* ing internal fuppurations. Pearsy if eaten too freely, are apt, as well as the ftone fruits, to diforder the ftomach and bowels; but they are lefs dangerous, and not fo often fwal- lowed in fuch quantities as to be materially preju¬ dicial to life or health. Nuts are perhaps, upon the whole, the moft dan¬ gerous of any of the fruits that are likely to fall into the way of this rank of people. When eaten in large quantity, they have been often known to lodge in the ftomach, and to be incapable of being re¬ moved from thence by any medicine, and of con- fequence have put a fpeedy end to life. When taken in lefs quantity, they are found to opprefs the breathing, and to produce vomiting and bowel complaints. Hoffman
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