208 EX£RCISE. 



This is a concise abstract of Nature's ope- 

 ration ; as necessary to constitute sufficient 

 information to comprehend our present pur- 

 pose of explicit animadversion Upon the great 

 advantage of bodily motion, so far as it shall 

 appear conducive to the preservation of 

 health. Enough is consequently advanced to 

 gratify every competent idea ; and afford am-^ 

 pie conviction, that should the body be per- 

 mitted to receive, and continue to accumu- 

 late in the frame, more aliment than can 

 be absorbed into the circulation, and car- 

 ried off by the different emunctories in a 

 certain portion of time ; over repletion, 

 disquietude, and ultimately disease, acute 

 or chronic, must be the inevitable conse-^ 

 quence. 



The system and effect are tdo palpably 

 clear to be all mistaken in even a theo- 

 retic survey of the process ; for when the 

 blood-vessel:5 become overloaded with an 

 accumulated retention of perspirable matter^ 

 and the stomach and intestines preternatu^ 

 rally extended by indurated excrement (all 

 which should be occasionally carried oft^ by 

 exercise) indisposition must arise in a greater 



