The Code of Health and Longevity

ON ATHLET I C EXERC I S I ES . ( 1 6 3 ) 4 ther it was real, or corporal, or myftical, inits fignifi- cation, I leave Pool and the reft of the divines to deter­ mine. " Qualifications of Wrejllers. —They muft be of a middle fize, athletic, full-breafted, and broad-flioulder- ed ; for wind and ftrength, brawny legged and armed, yet clear limbed. Terence' man, that has " Corpus Joli- «' dum atq;fucci plenum" is my promifing fcholar to do me credit, and be capable to ferve his Kingand Country on occafion, and defend his friend and felf from infults. 44 I receive no limber hams, no darling fucking bottles, who muft not rife at midfummer till eleven ofthe clock, and that the fire has aired his room and cldthes of his colliquative fweats,raifed by high fauces, and fpicy for­ ced meats, where the cook does the officeof the ftomach, with the emetic tea-table, fet out with bread and butters for breakfaft ; I'll fcarce admit a foeep biter, or eater of mutton j none, but beef-eaters will go down with me, who have robuji, healthy and found bodies. , " GALEN fays, i Tis not aftion, but the power to per­ form it, that proves a man in health.' Vide Crawford's Curfus Medicinse, p. 7. And elfewhere, 'A natural difpofition of all the parts of the body, enabling it perform the attions of life,' ishealth." NUMBER VI. ON FENCING. Extraft of a Letter fromHenry Angela, Efq; <f Bolton Row, May Fair. Dated London, Ofiober 19. 1806. *•FLATTERED as I am by the favour of your letter, I have only to regret the obfervations I have to make ... - have