The Code of Health and Longevity

9 8 APPEND I X . The Hate of health after training is always good, and not fubjed to complaints. The acquired ftate of health would probably continue, if the fyftem was perfevered in. The purging and fweating are both of fervice, and ne- ceflary, but the exercife and feeding are the moft effen- tial. There is no inftance as yet, of any perfon being pofitively put in training for the fole purpofe of recover­ ing health, but it certainly would be of great ufe in many diforders : and it is fc.nown,that a gentleman, after living hard in London, has gone to the country, and by living according to the above fyflem, in fome refpeds, has re*- turned to London in perfed health. Replies by Mr JACKSON, to fome Additional Queries, 1. Some boxers have lived long : Broughton to the age of eighty. Stevens, the nailer, above eighty ; George Maggs, of Briftol, is about eighty, anda remarkably fine looking man. But many of the principal boxers have died young, owing to exceffes of every fort, after the training was over \ but were it not for that circumllance, and the injuries from blows on the body, they would live ^ long enough : blows on the head are foon recovered. 2. A perfonin high life cannot be treated in exadly the fame mannerat firft, from the indulgencies to which he has been accuftomed; nor is his frame in general fo llrong. They eat too much made dilhes, and other im­ proper food, and fit too long at table, andeat too great a variety of articles ; alfo drink too much wine. No man fliould drink xnore than half a pint of wine. They alfo keep irregular hours, and lie too long in bed. 3 , 1 am c o n v i n c e d t h a t t h e g o u t m i g h t b e p r e v e n t e d by- following