PART I.. Of the General Causes of Diseases.

Of the general Causes of Diseases.

CHAP. I. Of Children Page 1 — Diseased Parents 7 — Clothing of Children 9 — Food of ditto 15 — Exercise of ditto 21 — Bad Effects of unwholesome Air upon ditto 30 — Nurses 33

CHAP. II. Of the Laborious, &c. 37 — the Sedentary 47 — the Studious 54

CHAP. III. Of Aliment 62

CHAP. IV. Of Air 75

CHAP. V. Of Exercise 81

CHAP. VI. Of Sleep 87 — Clothing 89

CHAP. VII. Of Intemperance 94

CHAP. VIII. Of Cleanliness 100

CHAP. IX. Of Infection 106

CHAP. X. Of the Passions 111 — Anger 112 — Fear ib. — Grief 116 — Love 119 — Religious Melancholy 120

CHAP. XI. Of the Common Evacuations 121 — Stool ib. — Urine 123 — Perspiration 125 — being affected by Changes in the Atmosphere 126 — Wet Clothes 127 — Wet Feet ib. — Night Air 128 — Damp Beds ib. — Damp Houses 130 — Sudden Transitions from Heat to Cold 131