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ledge, was their communication of the leaft 

 utility, in confirming an affertion that will, 

 I believe, be readily admitted by all the world 

 without exception. 



From fuch medical remarks as unavoid- 

 ably branch diredlly from the fubjedt, wc 

 return to exercife ; the great importance of 

 which cannot be too perfe6lly underftood, or 

 regularly perfevered in for the prefervation 

 of health. Having, I believe, properly de- 

 fined the phyfical effecfts of gradual motion, 

 fo far as it appertains to the animal oeconomy 

 in fecretion and excretion, (with its confe- 

 quent advantages in air and exercife) it be- 

 comes neceflary to introduce fuch general 

 rules as eftabliih the bafis of regular exercife, 

 although the t'mie and manner muft ever be 

 regulated by the temper and caprice of the 

 parties, feafon of the year, fituation, wea- 

 ther, and other contingencies not to be go- 

 verned by the privilege of the pen, or the 

 power of the prefs. 



The apology for, or rather burlefque upon, 

 the exercife of horfes (or more properly 

 invalids) in the Hvery ftables of London, 



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