The Code of Health and Longevity

ON ATHLET I C EXERC I SER 93 'the followingOhfervations were take?i hy an Amanuetifis from the viva voce Anfwers made hy Mr J. JACKSON, the celebrated fcientific teacher of the Pugilifiic Art, to thepreceding Queries, as they were read over to him. IN regaicTto fize, that is immaterial, for thofe who are trained to running, maj be from five feetto fix feet high ; beyond that is too large, nor is there an inllance of a very big man, being a firll rate runner. As to form, long thighs and fhort legs are defirable. One of the moil fa­ mous runners, Weft of Windfor, is only about five feet four, and he ran thirty-one miles in four hours and a quarter, at the age of forty-four. He beat the famous Powel. As to tells or qualities, they put men upon trial with ftiort runs, fparring, &.c. A perfon trained to boxing ought to be of a good fize and weight, The earlieft age is eighteen, and thence to forty, but feldom beyond that age, though attention to diet and exercife, on the fame fyftem, would doubtlefs be of ufe to perfons beyond that age. In general, they fuppofe that two months is fufficient to bring a man into good plight, either for boxing or run­ ning a match, provided he is previoufly in tolerable good condition jbut if the perfon is flefhy, it may require three months. The training Is begun with an emetic, and in about two days afterwards give them a dofe of Glauber-falts, from one to two ounces, and miffing about two days ano­ ther dofe of phyfic, and then a third. It is fuppofed that one emetic and three dofes of phyfic will clear any man; and after the body is thus cleared of all noxious matter, it muft be kept in good condition. It:: neccflaryto give \ the