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Observation proves that any thing tending to interfere 

 with or disturb the nutritive function aids in develop- 

 ing any tendency which may exist to chlorosis. If 

 we add to the remedies usually and properly given, 

 iron, bitter tonics, nourishing food, etc., etc., the aid 

 Avhich may be derived from horse-back riding, may 

 we not hope to cure in a short time an affection 

 which if left to run its course will inevitably produce 

 profound and irremediable ravages in the system ? 



d. Cachexia. — Here seems a fit place to say a few 

 words upon a subject to which a proper amount of 

 attention appears not to have been directed, but 

 which is quite important. 



However severely we may judge Galen, Borden, or 

 the others who have multiplied beyond measure, and 

 without reason, the varieties of cachexia, we cannot 

 deny their existence or their influence, following, as 

 they do, certain chronic maladies, which impress pro- 

 found modifications upon the economy. 



It is unnecessary to examine in detail each form, 

 but it will suffice to simply name the commoner ones, 

 of whose existence there can be no doubt. They are 

 the paludean, the syphilitic, the mercuric, and the 

 scorbutic. In each of these, this exercise strikes at 

 once at the one element common to all, that state or 

 condition of languor or inertia of all the functions 

 which is the chief characteristic of the disease — a con- 

 dition which persists long after removal of the dis- 

 ease which caused it. 



