The Code of Health and Longevity

ON ATHLETIC EXERCISES. 91 tial meals ? What kinds of flefh or meat is reckoned the beft; whether beef, mutton, veal, pork, lamb, or fowl ? Are any kinds of fifli allowed ? What quality of food is moft conducive to ftrength ? What quantity is neceflary for maintaining the fyftem in its moft perfed: ftate of vi­ gour ? Do they feed much in the intermediate days of the purges ? Is abftinence required when they take their phyfic ? 5. What kinds of liquors are reckoned beft? Whe­ ther wine, ale, water, fpirits, &c. ? Whether given hot or cold i in what quantities; and when ought they to be given ? 6. Are the very violent perfpirations into which they throw their patients, defigned to reduce the fyllem, to extenuate die fat, to leflen that quantity of blood, the ex- cefs of which makes us giddy or fhort breathedy or is it merely defigned to produce a new condition of the Ikin, more favourable to health and mufcular vigour ; to pro­ duce a fharperappetite •, a greater demand for food ; and a quicker nourilhmeat, or a greater nutrition from a more flender diet ? Is the fweat at firft produced by exercife, and only continued by the perfon, when trained, being put between two feather-beds, and encouraged by drinks j or is it produced by force of fweating drugs, or violent heats, or by continued friftion ? At what hours are the perfpirations brought on ? How is the pupil treated when the fweat is over ? What becomes of the Ikin of a fat man, when, by the procefs, he is reduced in fize, and ren­ dered lean ? Does it hang loofe, or is it tight ? Has it any effeft upon the bones ? 7. What hours of exercife do they require of their pupils during the day? At what hours do they fend them out in the morning ? How long do they continue abroad? Are they loaded with clothes after the body is reduced.