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nine o'clock, and continue there till six or 

 seven next morning. What medicine do 

 they take ? Some of them, who do not like 

 excessive walking, have recourse to purgative 

 medicines, Glauber salts only. Would Mr. 

 Sandiver recommend a similar process to 

 reduce corpulency in other persons? Mr. 

 Sandiver would recommend a similar process 

 to reduce corpulency in either sex, as the 

 constitution does not appear to be injured 

 by it; but he is apprehensive that hardly 

 any person could be prevailed upon to 

 submit to such severe discipline who had 

 not been inured to it from his youth. The 

 only additional information that Mr. Sandi- 

 ver has the power to communicate is, that 

 John Arnull, when rider to his Royal High- 

 ness the Prince of Wales, was desired to 

 reduce himself as much as he possibly could, 

 to enable him to ride a particular horse, 

 in consequence of which he abstained from 

 animal, and even from farinaceous food, 

 for eight successive days, and the only 

 substitute was now and then an apple. 

 He was not injured by it. Dennis Fitz- 

 patrick, a person continually employed as 

 a rider, declares that he is less fatigued, 



