A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man was allowed only a tea-fpoon full of rum a-day, but this tea-fpoon full refrelhed the poor men, benumbed as they were with cold, and faint with hunger, more than twenty times the quantity Mould have done thofe Mho Mere M7arm, and well fed ; and had it not been for the fpirit having fuch poM;er to adt upon men in their con- dition, they never could have out- lived the hardfhips they experienced. All thefe fadts, and many others which might be brought, eftablifh beyond a doubt the truth of the law I have mentioned, namely, that when the poM erful adtion of the exciting powers ceafes