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the healthy exercise they can get, whether on horseback 

 or on foot, short of going in for regular sweats. A 

 couple of Cockle's pills or a sedlitz powder may be 

 necessary now and then. 



In this climate, Cockle's pills are very apt to lose, to 

 a great extent, their purgative properties, if kept for 

 some time after the box containing them has been 

 opened. Lamplough's pyretic saline is probably the most 

 agreeable saline draught. Epsom salts are by far the 

 most effectual aperient for getting off weight; their 

 effect is less nauseating and weakening than that of 

 Cockle's pills. 



The following would be about the correct style of 

 daily food : A steak or a couple of chops done on the 

 gridiron, but not on the frying pan a couple of slices of 

 dry crisp toast, a few plain boiled onions, a bunch of 

 radishes or cress, or a stick of celery, or a couple of 

 tomatos, and a cup of tea, without milk or sugar, for 

 breakfast. A slice or two of cold meat, a hard biscuit, 

 and a glass of water for lunch. A couple of slices from 

 a joint, plain boiled onions, a biscuit, a stick of celery, 

 and half a pint of claret with water for dinner. By 

 pursuing this system, with plenty of ordinary exercise, 

 a man, in a month or so, will gradually get down to 

 within 5 or 6 Sbs. of his lightest riding weight, which, 

 if required, can be attained by a couple of sweats and a 

 dose of physic. 



But if a man has to get off, say 21 fts. in ten days or 

 a fortnight, stronger measures will have to be adopted. 

 Banting, as before described, must be followed, though 

 a man should dispense with his frugal lunch, and eat 



