The Code of Health and Longevity

APPEND I X . capable of enduring the greateft degree of fatigue and exertion. Whereas, on the other hand, we underftand by ivajlingy the fame animal reduced andweakened, by every means, even the moft violent, viz. llarvation and privation of food, violent exercife, when loaded with clothes andweights, half roafting them betweenfeather- beds, placedbefore a great fire, or in a barrel fometimes. All thefe things I have feen done, and the confequenceis exactly whatmight be expefted, that it almoft invaria­ bly terminatesin death, or at leaft premature old age. The invariable confequence, I am affkred, isj that the llomach, ftarvedand weaned from foodby everymeans, will not afterwards receive or etain it. I know this to be the cafe with the gentlemen who have been thus trained ;and I believe it to be fo in a certain degree with the jockies, thofe of them at leaft who waftevio­ lently ; for fome of them refufeto do fo. I doubt much whether Buckle ver goes below eight one-half Hones. But, at any rate, I once was aweek at Montrofe, and had a full opportunity of feeing a gentleman there wafte to ride eleven ftone. His food wasfmall bits ofcrufts, with a few dry beans, with tea, and a little weak negus ; and his ftomach foon cameto the ftate I mention, though he wasprevioufly a ftrong,powerful, and healthy man. Nay, the very inftance of health in an old jockey, tranfmitted to you is fingularly unfortunate, viz. that of Dennis Fitzpatrick ; for I have feen by theYork He­ rald, thathe has died fince your pamphlet was publiftt- ed. In fliort, you may be affured, there isno better way of Jkilling a man, than by wafting him violently for a horfe- race. It isremarked, how foon after wafting a man's weight and ftrength return, after be has refumed hisufual food. In