I<span>t provides the example of sweating sickness.
This example shows the reader that there was a disease and cause of death in Elizabethan England that does not still exist to our knowledge today. Most people probably had never heard of 'sweating sickness', so when it's presented in the passage it is effective in showing that Elizabethan ailments were different than modern ones. </span>
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<span>I think
that the author decided to begin passage 2 with a description of the city in
order to immerse the reader in the
environment and the conditions in which babbitts are. The writer only wants to
emphasize that a situation in which babbitts are, somehow has a connection with
the area in which they are located, that is the city.</span>
