An enquiry into the effects of spirituous liquors upon the human body, and their influence upon the happiness of society / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the College of Philadelphia.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
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MDCCXCI [1791]
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    yield this pleaPant juice, to remain iil all thcii- fields. They may prove the means, not only of Caving t Utrir children and grand-children many hundred pounds, Un pi laving their bo- dies from diieafe and death, and their lculs from mik-ry be- yond the grave. 6. VINEGAR and W ATER fweetened with fugar or melaiTes, is an agretble d. ink in warm weather. I beg, leave to recommend this whole ion.e mixture to reapers in a particular manner. It is pleasant and cooling. It promotes perforation, and refill* put refaction. Vinegar and water conitiiutcd the only drink of the loldieis of the Roman re- ] ublic; and it is well known that they marched and fought in a warm climate, and beneath a load of arms that weigh- ed 6olbs. Uoaz, a wealthy farmer in Paltllinc, we find treated his reapers with nothing but bread dipped in vine- gar. Under this head, I ihouk! not neglect to recommend BUTTER Mil K and w.UBR, or sour MIAJC (commonly cal- led bonneelahbei) and water. It will be rendered more grateful by the addition of a little fugar. Punch is like- wife calculated to le-ilen the effects of heat, and hard labour upon the body. The Ipii it in this liquor is blunted by its union with the vegetable acid. Hence it pufferies, not wil- ly the conftitut-nt parts, but moil: ot the qualities of cyder and wine. To render this liquor periectly innocent and w holefome, it mull be drank ixieui—in moderate quantities— and only in warm weather. Say not, that tp:fits have become iitctffiry in haivefr, from habit and the cntlom of the coun- try. The etiftom of fwallowing this liquid fire, is a b..d one, a id the habit of it may be bioken. Let half a dozen far- m is in a neighbourhood, combine to allow Id. h r wages to their reapers than aie common, and a iulficie.it quantity of any-of the liquors I have recommended,, and they may loon abolilh the praclice of giving them fpirns. They will in a little while be delighted With Hie uo: d effect J of their af- fociation. Their giain will be fooner and mo;e carefully gathered into their bains, and an hundred difagreeable icenes of lick: efs and contention will In.- avoided, which al- v jvs follow in a gi eater or lets degree the uie of fpirituous liquors. To enable the body to fuppoit the vvafte of its ftrength by labour, the ftoiMdk ihouid be- ccujlantty, but moderately, ft'irtjiulated by-aliment of a particular kind. Labourers bear with great difficulty long intervals between their u.cils..