The Code of Health and Longevity

ON ATHLET I C EXERC I SES . 9 5 with meat, in point of nutriment. The fat of meat is never given, but the lean of the beft meat. No butter nor cheefe on any account; cheefe is indigeftiblc. Meat mull be drefled as plain as poflible, without feafoning of any kind ; no eggs are given excepting the yolk raw in the morning. Men will live longer on beef, without change, than any other kind of animal food, but mutton is reckoned moft eaiily digefted. The meat muft always befrefh, and never falted. No quantity ofmeat is fixed ; it depends upon the conftitution and appetite. Little men will eat as much as large men, and very frequently more. Pies and puddings are never given, nor any kind of paftry. As to hard dumplings, people may as well take earthen-ware into the ftomach, they are fo very in- digeftible. In the intermediate days of the purges they feed as much as ufual. No foups are given, nor any thing warm, excepting with their phylic, which is worked off with gruel. After the phylic is worked off, they get for their dinner a little boiled mutton and broth, with the fat taken off. The broth mufl be let cool f in order to take off the fat, and then it may be warmed again -, or beef-tea, in the fame way ; but with little or no fait, as it occafions thirft. Malt liquoc.is bell, and particularly home-brewed beer, old, andnever bottled, that being windy. As to wine, a little red wine, which is much preferable to white ; never more thanhalf a pint of wine after dinner, and none after fupper. The quantity of beer not to exceed three pints during the whole day, taken with breakfaft and dinner, and a little after fupper. Sometimes white wine and wa­ ter is allowed to a man at breakfaft, who does not like malt liquor. Too much liquor is apt to fwell the belly, jmci is bad for the wind. The liquor Ihouldnot be taken in