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for their health, will find much inftruclion in 

 an old book, called Medecina Gymnajlica, 

 written by Dr. Fuller, a phyfician of high 

 repute, in the days of good Oueen Anne. 

 Sydenham warmly recommends this exercife 

 to afthmatic patients; and Dr. Darwin, in his 

 celebrated Zoonomia, relates a cafe of Phthijis 

 pulmonalis perfectly cured by perfeverance in 

 exercife on horfeback. It is an excellent 

 bracer, and mould ever be joined with the 

 cold-bath, in cafes of debility derived from 

 exceffes of a certain kind. If I wanted any 

 illuftration here, I (hould refer my reader to 

 the records of crim. con. where he will find 

 blazoned the wonderful and attractive powers of 

 grooms and jockies. Had that infpired maniac, 

 Jean Jaques, been as good a jockey as he was 

 an eloquent fcribe, it is probable, the Vene- 

 tian bona rcba, had not infultingly advifed 

 him to Rudy the mathematics; nor had dure 

 Mamma been driven to the fad and expenfive 

 neceiftty of providing him a iubflitute. The 

 motion of the horfe and frefti draughts of pure, 

 elaftic air, are the bell:, perhaps the only means, 

 to recruit and exhilarate the exhaulted fpirits, 

 relieve the aching heads, and enliven the ima- 

 ginations of frudious and fedentary men ; but 

 how much is it to be lamented that under our 

 profufe, and I am lorry to add, diihoneft and 



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