IIORSE-BACK RIDING. ■ J$ 



exercise requires ; and where an inward curvature of 

 the thigh bone is threatened, the tendency is les- 

 sened by the action of the muscles in riding, and if 

 the limb be not straightened, at least a certain resist- 

 ance is opposed to the deviation. 



g-. Syphilis. — It may at the first glance seem 

 strange that a sufferer from this disease, possessing, 

 as it does, a well-marked specific character, can be 

 benefited by horse-back riding. Nothing is more 

 true, however ; and since the question is both a deli- 

 cate and serious one, we will give, as briefly and 

 clearly as we can, our reasons. 



According to Fleury, that, "As in any ordinary 

 poisoning, the physician seeks not only to administer 

 an antidote, but to cast out of the body, by the 

 evacuations, the greatest possible quantity of the 

 noxious substance, so in syphilitic infection the aim 

 of the physician should not be alone directed toward 

 the virus situated in the infected blood, but he 

 should also strive to expel the poison through the 

 various eliinmatorics of the system." 



Every now and then cases are met with which, in 

 consequence of constitutional idiosyncrasies or the 

 late hour at which the treatment is begun, or some- 

 times owing to its being badly directed, stubbornly 

 resist all specific remedies. The disease persistently 

 increases in severity, the symptoms multiply, and, 

 above all, tend to become permanent, and, finally, a 



