The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 45 of living. All these various types have to be tho­ roughly understood before a course of preparation suitable for each case can be prescribed. Diseases, whether mental or systemic, should receive cheattention of a medical man, and must not be left to the tender care of the trainer : more harm results from improper treatment than the general public are aware of. A man without the knowledge of the con­ terminous sciences necessary to the education of a physician, is unable to diagnose disease ; how, there­ fore,can he prescribe treatment fora malady that he has not recognized ? Medicines, even if ever so simple, if administered in a wrong direction, fail to effect cure, and, worse, often sow the seeds of future complaints ; but a man in good health and capable of taking strong exercise can render himself fit for harder work by a gradual system of training. Severe exercise will not give the body that tone which an athlete should possess, unless at the same time due attention be paid to mode of living. It is all import­ ant that not only there should be method in the times devoted to exercise, but also regularity in hours of sleep and of taking food. A man in training should go to bed at not later than eleven p.m., and rise at eight; and breakfast, dinner, and tea or supper must be dis­ cussed at certain fixed periods, with rigid punctuality. There is a very bad habit which pervades all classes of society, and is more resorted to on account of its assumed sociality than as a vice—it isdrinking between meals ; this custom or vice, whatever its patrons