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no assurance from me that no such-like indulgence 

 was encouraged, if existing in those days. Hence the 

 mental derangements or other ailments brought on 

 by inattention to hygienic principles, and a lack of 

 fixity of purpose to secure necessary comforts. Much 

 benefit has accrued in our day from the abandonment 

 of the smoking of bad tobacco and home-made cigars 

 at about a shilling the hundred, and of the vile spirits, 

 sold under the pretence that they were smuggled and 

 foreign, in which our forefathers were content to 

 indulge. Champagne is much lighter, and when well- 

 iced is a cool refreshing beverage with which to quench 

 early thirst. Well-matured wines of superior vintages, 

 and genuine spirits with foreign cigars, may be taken 

 later in the day, ad libitum, for the attainment of 

 good health ; in this way following the precepts of 

 Galen, and those of iEsculapius much to the same 

 purpose, which should not go unheeded. 



Again, a few years ago, horses were taken to 

 exercise, if not in semi-darkness, at least at four 

 o'clock in the morning in the summer, exposed 

 to a humid and raw atmosphere, thus subjecting not 

 only themselves but the poor lads who rode them, as 

 well as the thoughtless trainer who in those days was 

 always seen with his horses, to colds, influenza, and 

 bronchial affections of every description. Indeed, to 

 this practice, no doubt, can be ascribed the prevalence 

 of illness amongst horses generally, and the existence, 

 in those days, of so many confirmed roarers. To-day 



