The Code of Health and Longevity

I 3 t> APPEND I X . receive information. I have colle£led from elder Jpohn Arnall and others, that phyfic of no kind is ufed now, fo common as it ufed to be, either in wafting men to ride, or in training them to pugiliftic engagements, or extra­ ordinary mufcular exertions of any kind. The number of queftions put by this author might be cqmprefTed into a very few; like fummoning and capitulating com­ manders of armed men, many of the articles are faid to be anfwered in the foregoing, number fo and fo, as the numerous queftions (made ufe of in this pamphlet) are, in a great degree, by the following general obferva- tions. The good effedls of air, exercife, andaliment, to animal bodies, to the attainment of health, is tolerably well known. No general rule can be laid down as to the mode of feeding ; the quantity of exercife, or the time required, to bring either man or horfe to perfornji the utmoft he is capable of doing : the conformation, ^nd idiofyncrafy of the body of eadh animal, the trainer fhould make himfelf acquaintedwith : men and horfes differ in conftitutions, as in difpofitions. The great art amongft trainers is, or ftiould be, to difcover what quan­ tity of exercifc, See. a horfewill take to bring him to, and keep him at his beft. As to phyfic, it is my opi­ nion, that it is much toogenerally in ufeamongfl racing horfes in particular; but, uponthat fubjeft, I have more to fay than is eortvenient for me to advance at prefent. More depends, far more, on exercife than is generally believed, even at this period, though the benefit is pretty well knowif andadmitted ; yet, byno means fufBcient- ly :pure air, proper exercife, good oats and hay, with thorough grooming, would bring horfes to the ftarting poft, far better able and iir condition for running than they ufually arebrought, in confequertceof the too com­ mon ufe of phyfic, and the quantity given ateach dofe.