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rety little meaf^; wine diluted with twice its measiife of 

 water is their drink : tea in the afternoon with little or no 

 bread and butter, and no supper. It appears that absti- 

 nence is their principal object. 



As to their exercise, they load themselves with clothes, 

 that is, five or six waistcoats, two coats, and as many pair 

 of breeches ; in which dress they take a severe walk of 

 fifteen or sixteen miles after breakfast. On their return, 

 they change their clothes for dry, and some who are much 

 fatigued, will lay down for an hour before dinner. No 

 severe exercise is taken after dinner ; but the day is 

 passed as they please. They generally go to bed at eight 

 or nine, and rise about six or seven. 



Those who are unwilling to take excessive exercise, 

 have recourse to purgative medicine ; which usually con- 

 sists of two ounces of Glauber's salts. 

 This treatment JNIr. Sandevir is positive in recommending a similar 

 recommended process for reducing corpulency in either sex. as from 

 against corpu- ^ . , - j.-, j. A x-x x- j ^ 



Icncy. experience he perceives that the constitution does not 



appear to be injured by it : but he is apprehensive that 

 * very few indeed could be prevailed upon to submit to such 



severe discipline, unless he had been early inured to 

 it. 

 Extreme case This gentleman mentions as an additional fact, that 

 of sudden re- j^^Ijh Arnall, when rider to the Prince of Wales, being 

 desired to reduce himself as much as he possibly could, 

 for a particular purpose, abstained from animal and evea 

 from farinaceous food for eight succeeding days, and eat 

 only a piece of apple now and then. He was not injured 

 by it at the time, and is now in good health. The writer 

 also adds that Dennis Fitzpatric, a person at this time con- 

 tinually employed as a rider, declares that he is less fa- 

 tigued by riding, and has more strength to contend with 

 a determined horse in a. severe race, when moderately re» 

 ! duced, than when allowed to live as he pleased, though 

 he never weighs more than nine stone, and frequently has 

 reduced himself to seven stone seven pounds. 



Another person answered the queries to the following 



eflect. 



Another ac- Jockies are trained and reduced by abstinence and by 



count of jock- sweating, in consequence of additional cloathing and long 



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