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AMCENITATES ACADEMICS, Vol. VII. 

 1769. pp. 506. 



125. MOTUS POLYCHRESTUS. C. Lddo, 1 763. 



-There are few who do not require rather to 

 be reminded, than convinced of the many be- 

 nefits arifing from proper exercife. Its fignal ufes, 

 both as a prefervative and reftorer of health, are, 

 in this diflertation concifely, but very ftrikingly 

 delineated. 



After fome general phyfiological obfervations 

 on the effeds of exercife, the writer difpiays 

 its efficacy as a prefervative in ftrengthening the 

 body, procuring the moft genial warmth, helping 

 digeftion, incrcafing perfpiration, and promoting 

 all the excretions in due time and proportion \ in 

 procuring the moft refrefhing fleep, and, in vale- 

 tudinary habits particularly, fubduing that fruit- 

 ful fource of difeafe, acidities in the firil paf- 

 fages. 



He then enumerates thofe difeafes in which ex- 

 ercife is to be confidered in a medicinal view. In 

 hypochondriac cafes, habitual debility, languid 

 appetite, obftriidiions of the vifcera, confumptions, 

 afthma, and in various difeafes from laxity, its 

 ufe has been indifpenfable. 



In fpeaking of the Hemicrania^ he relates that 

 LiNN/£us himfelf had been fubjed to violent pa- 

 roxyfms of that kind, which ufually held him 24 

 hours, with intervals rarely of little more than a 

 week \ and that thefe fits were excited by very flight 

 caufes, even fuch as the drinking only a fpoonful 

 of wine : and that after trying inelFcdually various 



Z 4 remedies, 



