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studies on the treatment of glycosuria, points out 

 the beneficial results of horse-back riding, and had 

 he but insisted more strongly upon the use of that 

 remedy in the treatment of this disease, we would 

 have had nothing to add to the patient researches 

 of the learned professor." 



Bouchardat, led to do this by the practice in use in 

 the training of pugilists, in sending his patients to 

 labor in the fields, or to undergo a course of training 

 in the gymnasium, had in view principally the attain- 

 ing of two results : 1st. The absorption of a greater 

 quantity of oxygen ; 2d. The burning of a greater 

 quantity of sugar. 



*' Under the influence of more rapid movements, a 

 greater quantity of air is introduced into the lungs, a 

 greater quantity of oxygen employed, and a greater 

 quantity of heat and force produced ; that heat and 

 force necessitate a greater consumption of the alimen- 

 tary materials, and that which undergoes easiest this 

 change is sugar. It results, that being destroyed in 

 greater proportion, it can no longer appear in the 

 urine, and that we can thus by forced exercise utilize 

 a greater quantity of the glycosuric aliments." (Bou- 

 chardat, "• Du Diabete Sucre ou Glycosuria, son traite- 

 ment hygienique," Paris, 1852.) 



Probably there is no form of exercise which fulfils 

 more completely the indications so clearly formulated 

 by Bouchardat than horse-back riding. Though not 

 as severe, and the results less than those obtained 



