The Pedestrian's Record

5° the pedestrian's record. proving that the functions of digestion and assimila­ tion are actively performed. Plethora nearly always places the subject of it in dangerous ease, in which state he remains until bleeding at the nose, or some unimportant haemorrhage relieves the system from the high pressure imposed upon it, or some ailment, such as a bilious attack, when the remedial measures demanded necessitate a course of living calculated to reduce the system. But often no warning is given, for apoplexy, structural disease of the heart, or rupture of some organ, causes death. But Nature, ever economical in her means and wise in her ends, is always attempting to avert fatal affections, and in acting for the safety of the plethoric, sometimes causes fat to be stored up in the system as a means whereby the excess of blood may be diverted from the over-distended vital organs to the nourishment of this superfluous substance. The fat man repre­ sents our third class ; neither plethora nor obesity could be produced without food and drink taken in ex­ cess, or by the devouring those alimentary substances which are known to be highlycharged with nitrogenous and fatty principles. The farmer, when fatteningcattle, supplies them with foods which he knows will pro­ duce fat; and the various aliments—vegetables, &c.— which cause plethora and the storage of fat in the human body being well known to the chemist and physiologist, it will therefore be readily understood that being acquainted with these facts, we are in a position to determine those foods which the athlete