Exercife and 

 treatment ? 



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Intention of the ^' Are the very violent perfpirations into which they throw 

 pevfpuations, their patients, defigned to reduce the fyftein, to extenuate 

 ^wexci e , ^j^^ j.^j^ j^ lefTen that quantity of blood, the excefs of which 

 makes us giddy or fliort breathed ; or is it merely defigned to 

 produce a new condition of the fkin, more favourable to 

 health and mufcular vigour ; to produce a fliarper appetite; 

 a greater demand for food; and a quicker nouridjraent, or a 

 greater nutrition from a more flender diet ? Is the fweat at 

 firft produced by exercife, ^:id only continued by the perfon, 

 when trained, being put between feather beds, and encouraged 

 by drinks ; or is it produced by force of fweating drugs, or 

 violent heats, or by continued fridion ? At what hours are 

 the perfpirations brought on ? How is the pupil treated when 

 the fweat is over? What becomes of the fkin of a fat man, 

 when, by the procefs, he is reduced in fize, and rendered 

 lean? Does it hang loofe, or is it tight? Has it any effefl 

 upon the bones ? 



7, What hours of exercife do they require of their pupils 

 during the day ? At what hours do they fond them out in the 

 morning? How long do they continue abroad? Are they 

 loaded with clothes after the body is reduced, and becomes 

 limber, and thin and muicular; or only while the fweafing 

 procefs continues? Are they fed before they go abroad, or 

 when they return ? What trials are made of their ftrength ? 

 When is a man known to be up to his full firength and breath 

 in training? At what hours do they go to bed? What fleep 

 are they allowed ? What indifpofitions are they fubjeft to 

 during training ? Are there any circumiiances by which the 

 procefs may be interrupted; or any circumflances, in con- 

 fequence of which, it mufl fometimes be abandoned ? 



8. What Js the ftate of the health, after they give up train- 

 ing ? Are they fubjecl to any complaints ; and what are they ? 

 How long does the acquired excefs of firength continue? 



9. It is moft interefling to learn, on which part of this 

 procefs, the purging, the fweating, the exercife, or the 

 feeding, they moft depend ; and whether it procures a per- 



perrianent, tern- manent increafc of vigour, eafily maintained by fuitable diet 



porary, curative, g^^j exercifes, or only a temporary excitement, calculated 



for the particular occafion ? AHo, whether perfons have ever 



thought of undergoing this procefs, not for the purpofe of 



running matches, but to recover heallb ; with what fuccefs 



this 



Subfcq'.ient 

 effefts of train 



What part of 

 training rrioft 

 effedual ? 

 Whether it be 



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