70 IIORSE-BACK RIDING. 



We are all aware of the great difficulty of removing 

 this cachectic taint from the system when its origin 

 has been miasmatic, as in fever and ague, for ex- 

 ample. 



All is not done when the disease itself has been 

 met and overcome ; the harder task of reanimating 

 the disordered functions, especially the assimilative, 

 yet remains, for without this the sufferer cannot re- 

 gain his lost health and strength. 



This is one of the cases in which we truly beheve 

 that, by suitable equestrian exercise, we shall see con- 

 valescence go on with a rapidity almost impossible 

 without the aid of this powerful auxiliary. 



c. Lymphatism (scrofula). — Lymphatism is the neu- 

 tral ground between the lymphatic temperament, 

 which is proposed as a normal type of health, and its 

 morbid perversion, which constitutes the scrofulous 

 diathesis. Although we are ignorant of the real 

 nature of this condition, we recognize as its charac- 

 teristic features a slowness and incompleteness of the 

 functions of innervation and hematose, and a want 

 of contractile power in the muscular and other tis- 

 sues, which impress upon strumous patients a distinct 

 and unmistakable character. 



Although the relation between the lymphatic tem- 

 perament, and the existence in persons of such tem- 

 perament of strumous tendencies, is not yet fully 

 understood, yet clinical experience teaches us that 

 scrofulous affections once developed in lymphatic in- 



