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very small piece of pudding and less meat ; and, 

 when fish is to be obtained, neither the one nor 

 the other is allowed. Wine and water is the 

 usual beverage, in proportion of one pint to two 

 of water. Tea in the afternoon, with little or no 

 bread and butter, and no supper. After breakfast, 

 having sufficiently loaded themselves with clothes, 

 that is, with five or six waistcoats, two coats, and 

 as many pair of breeches, a severe walk is taken, 

 from ten to fifteen miles. After their return home, 

 dry clothes are substituted for those that are wet 

 with perspiration, and, if they are much fatigued, 

 some of them lie down for an hour before dinner, 

 after which no strong exercise is taken. 



" From nine at night until six or seven in the 

 morning were the usual hours of sleep. Purgative 

 medicines were resorted to by those who did not 

 like excessive walking, consisting of Glauber salts 

 only. John Arnull once ate nothing but an 

 occasional apple for eight successive days, in order 

 to reduce himself to ride a particular horse for the 

 Prince of Wales. In later days the system was 

 much modified, particularly the length of the walk, 

 and the custom at Newmarket at that time was to 

 go four miles out, where the person sweating had 

 a house to stop at, in which there was a large fire, 

 by which the perspiration was very much increased. 

 Indeed, sometimes it becomes so excessive, that 

 he may be seen scraping it off the uncovered 

 parts of his person, after the manner in which the 

 race-horse is scraped, using a small horn for the 

 purpose. After sitting awhile by the fire and 

 drinking some diluted liquid, he walks back to 

 Newmarket, swinging his arms as he proceeds, 

 which increases the muscular actions. Sufficiently 



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