The Code of Health and Longevity

ON ATHL f c T I C EXERCISES. i 6 l In fapport of this, I have been affured,that a fingle glals of fherry orMadeira wine, during the wafting, has been known to increafe £t man's weight the incredible quanti­ ty of two pounds ; and it is certainlywonderful, atny rate, how very foon jockies who have waftedfor run­ ning, return to their ufual ftate and weight. BOXING ANDRUNNING MATCHES. Extraft of a Letter from another Corrcfpondent, dated iqth September 1806. " Severalof my friendswho have been trained for amufemeni; merely, declare, thatheyconfider the fclence of boxing, to be a tnoft healthful, bracing, andmanly ex- ercife; That the requifite training doesa man good, in place ofharm; and that thfefighters are feldom theworfe for a battle, if they efcape without ablow in the cheft, (or bread-bajift as they term it), or fome other dange­ rous part of the body, e. £. oppolite to the kidneys ; a blow received on which, hasall the effeds of a fevere fit of the graveh As Mr Jackfon obferves, boxers general­ ly foonget the better of blows in the head) he might have addcdj however, that when thofe take place very violently on the temples, or behind the ear, they often are attended with inftant death; The true reafon why few of the boxers aire long lived, arifes afluredly from their diffolutelives, after giving up their profeflions, and commencing idle men, as they generally do. With regard to walkers, and the training ofthem, I ftill concur in opinion with Mr Jackfon, that it is moft healthful, if judicioufly goneaboutj and not carried any improper length jand the training does them good in / place