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A Treatise of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks,  Airs, and the Benefits of Clean, EPUB eBook

A Treatise of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks, Airs, and the Benefits of Clean EPUB

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Thomas Tryon, 1634 - 1703, was an English merchant, author of popular self-help books, and early advocate of vegetarianism. Of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks. Of the Excellency of Good Airs, and of the contrary.

Of the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds, and of the Inconveniences of Feather-Beds.

What Matter it is that does occasion the Generation of that pernicious Vermin called Bugs, that so many Hundreds in this City, and other great Towns, are infested with; more especially in Holland, Italy, New-England, Barbadoes, Jamaica, and in many other Places.

That they are never bred but where Beds are: And that their being generated from Wooden Bedsteads, or from Hogs Hair in the Plaisterings of the Walls, is a meer Story, promoted inconsiderately by Persons mistaken in the Productions of Nature: Also, How all such Persons as are troubled with them may be cured without using Medicines, and Directions how to avoid ever having them again.

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