one of the impropriety of this part of the diet of such as are drinking the chalybeate waters. If a little infusion of tea be mixed with any of the chalybeate waters, the mixture assumes a purple color, nearly as deep as when tincture of galls is mixed with the same water. When it has stood for some time, the iron is all precipitated in the form of a black powder, and neither tincture of galls, nor pussiat of potash will produce any effects upon the superincumbent liquor. The same will undoubtedly take place in the stomach and first passages, if a chalybeate water be drank within an hour or two after tea. Now, since the small quantity of iron which is contained in these waters, owes it's efficacy to it's saline state, or union with and saturation by fixed air; tea, by precipitating it from this solvent, must destroy, or at least lessen the good effects expected from it.

The second class of patients, who labor under diseases accompanied with a plethoric or inflammatory disposition, and particularly those laboring under herpetic and other cutaneous complaints, ought to live more abstemiously. It would be of the greatest advantage, if such patients would

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favor the general intention of promoting perspiration, by drinking plentifully of such warm diluents as stimulate but little, such as broths, gruel, barley-water, or weak sassafras tea. The solid part of their food should consist chiefly of vegetables, and a small quantity of fresh animal food at dinner only. Salted meats are, in these cases, very improper, and should be carefully avoided, as well as all kinds of foods which are perspirable with difficulty; pork is supposed to be of this kind.

With regard to fruits, there can be no objection to the use of them, provided they be perfectly ripe, and eaten with moderation; they have a tendency to cool the body, and by their mild ascescent qualities, they temper and correct the alkalescent nature of animal food. The best time for eating fruit is before dinner; when taken upon a full stomach of animal food, they seem not to agree so well, and overload that organ, perhaps already oppressed with more than it can easily digest. Upon a supposition that several herpetic complaints depend upon a superabundance of oxygen, acid and ascescent fruits will be improper, because they contain and impart a considerable

quantity of that principle to the blood, as is evident from the good effects which they produce in the sea-scurvy, which depends upon a deficiency of oxygen.

Suppers ought, at all times, to be eaten with caution, and nothing but the lightest kind of food, and the easiest of digestion ought to be allowed, such as chicken, tripe, poached eggs, gruel, jellies, &c.. The evening is not the proper time for taking in much nourishment; the powers of the body, and particularly of the stomach, are then almost exhausted, and the food taken in, will be but imperfectly digested and assimilated; besides, the addition of fresh chyle to the blood, together with the sti mulus of food acting on the stomach, will prevent sleep, or render it disturbed or confused: nothing contributes so much to the prevention of diseases, as well as to the restoration of health, as sound healthy sleep; this is the method nature had provided to repair the exhausted constitution, and restore the vital energy; without it's refreshing aid, our worn-out constitutions would scarcely be able to drag on a few days, or at most weeks, before the vital spring was quite run down.

EXERCISE.

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F all the various methods of preserving health and preventing diseases, which nature has suggested, there is none more efficacious than exercise; it puts the fluids all in motion, strengthens the solids, promotes perspiration, and occasions the decomposition of a larger quantity of atmospheric air in the lungs. Hence, in order to preserve the health of the body, the Au-thor of nature has made exercise absolutely necessary to the greater part of mankind,. for obtaining the means of existence.

Had not exercise been absolutely necessary for our well being," says the elegant Addison, "nature would not have made the body so proper for it, by giving such an activity to the limbs, and such a pliancy to every part as necessarily pro-duce those compressions, extensions, contortions, dilations, and all other kinds of motions that are necessary for the preservation of such a system of tubes and

glands. And that we might not want inducements to engage us in such exercise of the body, as is proper for it's welfare, it is so ordered that nothing valuable can be procured without it. Not to mention riches and honors, even food and raiment are not to be come at, without the toil of the hands and the sweat of the brow. Providence furnishes materials, but expects that we should work them up our selves. The earth must be labored before it gives it's increase, and when it is forced into it's several products, how many hands must they pass through, before they are fit for use. Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than 19 parts of the species in 20: and as for those who are not obliged to labor, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that vo, luntary labor, which goes by the name of exercise."*

Let every one therefore, who resorts to Harrogate for the benefit of health, take as much exercise in the open air as they

*Spectator, No. 115.