SALUTARY EFFECTS OF GESTATION. gQQ 



existence of some organic aiischlefj and were in som€ mea- 

 sure alarmed for the consequences. 



He wafe yjersuaded, and not reluctantly, to go without 

 delay for medical advice ; and was accordingly conveyed in 

 a carriage to the house of some physician of eminence, but 

 did not succeed in finding him at home. As the symptoms 

 did not appear to admit of delay, and were at least not • 

 aggravated by the motion, it was hoped, that the wished 

 for advice might be obtained at a part of the to»h, which 

 happened to he at some distance. But the second attempt 

 proved as fruitless as the former, and a third was made 

 with the same event. Since the throbbing had by that 

 time considerably abated, he was contented to postpone any 

 farther efforts to the following day, and directed the carriage 

 homewards. By the time that he returned to his friends, 

 he found, that the motion of travelling over several miles of 

 pavement had apparently removed the complaint. The 

 pulsation of the heart and arteries had subsided to their 

 natural standard, and he congratulated himself, that his 

 search of a remedy had not been ineffectual, although he 

 had been disa[?pointed as to the source, frorn which he 

 thought he had most reason to expect relief. 



If vigour can in any instance be directly given, a man vigour di- 

 may certainly be said to receive it in the most direct mode, rectl^ given, 

 when the important service of impelling forward the circu- 

 lation of his blood is performed for him by external means. 

 The main spring, or first mover of the system, is thereby, 

 as it were, wound up ; and although the several subordinate 

 operations of so complicated a machine cannot be regu- 

 lated in detail by mere external agency, they must each 

 be performed with greater freedom, in consequene of this 

 general supply of power. 



In almost every treatise on the subject of chronical Benefit of p<;s- 



diseases are to be found numerous instances of the benefit, *'^,*"\","^ '^'"* 

 , u • I'll nical dilwuos. 



produced by the several modes of gestation, which have 



been most generally adopted; as riding on horseback, in 



carriages, sea voyages, and swinging. And in many cases, 



which might be adduced, it has appeared too clear, to 



admit of a doubt, that the cure of the patient has been 



pwin^ solely to the external agitation of his body, which 



must 



