THE ROAD TO HEALTH:
{"newspaper_name": "American watchman and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": "Baltimore.\n\non, A rHYsIcIAN's OPINION OF HUNTING"}
on, A PHYSICIANS OPINION OF HUNTING.


No persons lit has been observed by an eminent
physician,) more strikingIy illustrate the impor-
tance Of bodily exercise than that class of b0lS u
ranS who, with luxurious mode of living, combine
amusements which CONSIST in strenuous and almost
indefatigabe exertons. The sportsman works as
hard for pastime the ordinary day -aborer is
obliged to do for his bread. The tolls of both
equally artluous, and differ only in the one being
matter Of choice, the other Of necessity. The un-
wholesome pleasures Of the table are, in manner,
compensated by the salutary enioyments of the
chase. An evening Of noisy and jovial intemper-
ance not unusually crowns day of equally jovia
and noisy activity and man will often be found,
for long time to escape the dangers of the field,
and the still more imminent dangers Of festival


The follower of the hounds is on the road to heat


although he may not be in search of it, and if it
we're not for the excesses which are too frequently
connected with this manner of life, it might prove
sngularIy conducive to vigor and longevity. AS it
is however, the fox hunter seldom dies of a bro.
ken neck, to which he seems continually liable, but
very generally Of broken constitution. to which
his habits 10 the field by means contribute. He
always stands out longer than the sedentary or in


dolent debauchee, though he may yield at last to the
destructive power of licentouS Indulgence.


Coke states, in his history OF the Bourbons OF
Spain, that hunting first became royal amusement,
or at least more cultivated as such, in conse-
quence of its having been professionally advised, as
an andote TO the hyp0chopdriasis, to which that
august family were continually liable. 10 this the
pithy observation of DR.. Sydenham may be added !:
have frequently seen broken-up spirits and appa-
rently reduced constitutions restored to strength
and cheerluness, by horse exercise, when almost
every other method of recovery had been tried
without advantage. To many Ct my nervous
and bilious patients, I have recommended 1t as al.
most my sole prescription-'t live on horseback.