82 HORSE-BACK RIDING. 



'*'Awoman maybe beautiful without embonpoint, 

 but a really thin woman who, even at a distance, may 

 serve as a subject upon whom the student may 

 pursue his studies in osteology, cannot (even with the 

 grossest flattery), be called beautiful." (Bureaud.) 



k. Intermittent Fever. — Intermittent fever some- 

 times disappears without treatment, but this is very 

 rare, and is almost always the result of removal from 

 the infected locality. Flight does not, however, 

 always effect a cure, since a single attack may have 

 produced so profound an impression upon the system, 

 that if the sufferer be not subjected to appropriate 

 and sufficiently long-continued treatment, he will, if 

 the disease does not return per se, suffer for years 

 afterwards from its effects. 



A number of experiments have established the 

 fact that diaphoretics and violent muscular exercise, 

 taken just before the chill, will retard it, and in some 

 cases even cure the disease. (" Diet, des Sci. Med. 

 —art. Diaph.") 



The English Hippocrates, Sydenham, regarded 

 horse-back riding as a most useful remedy in obstruc- 

 tions of the liver and spleen. 



Ramazzini tells of a young riding-master whom he 

 cured completely of an obstruction of the spleen fol- 

 lowing an acute attack of fever by making him, not- 

 withstanding his debility and wretched appearance, 

 return to his occupation. 



In the febrile condition of body following improp- 



