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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    higher perfedtion in rural fituations. Thefe corredt theputrefadlive difpofition of animal food, and rend to keep up the proper fecretions and evacuations, and to maintain that balance in the animal fyftem, upon which health fo much depends. The regular hours neceflary to be obferved by thofe who follow country bufinefs, are perhaps of more confequence than any of the other articles, however important thofe may be. It is an old and a common opinion, that the external air is much lefs falubrious during the night than the day; and this opinion, which probably was at firft drawn from obfervation, feems to be con- firmed by chemical experiments, which tend to fhew that the air exhaled by vegetables, whilft the fun is above the horizon, is much more pure and fit for refpiration than that which iflues from them in the abfence of the fun. The ill effedts of the latter are probably bell avoided, by the human body being in a Hate of repofe and infenfibility, which render it lefs liable to be affedted by fuch impref- fions. The morning air, on the contrary, fo cele- brated both by poets and philofophers for its benign and cheering effedts upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfedtion by perfons in this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in point of health are probably very great. B 2 I have