Distemper is so seldom totally extirpated, and is become the _Opprobrium_ both of the Patient and Physician; for else it would be impossible, that People should generally resist the Consequence of that Observation which I hinted before: For if the Labour of the Poor generally secures ’em from this Distemper, and if this Distemper, whenever it seizes, is of so nice and tender a Nature, that it will scarce allow of any of the common Methods us’d in the Cure of other Distempers, certainly it behoves the Persons so griev’d, to try whether those Means which are Preservative to others, may not prove Curative to them; which, by reason that the Subject of the Distemper, _viz._ the Spirits and Nerves are primarily affected by Exercise, proves highly probable. For why there should be such dependance on Internals universally, and even in this Case, I can’t see; to me it seems almost as Ridiculous, as if a Workman should use but one sort of Tool in working on Wood, Stone, Brass, and all other Materials. I need not here take Notice of any of the particular Symptoms of this variable Disease, they all being liable to the same Regimen; I have already in another place hinted what Relief may be procur’d by this Method in the Hysterick Colick, and in the obstinate Watchings, which will scarce submit to the use of _Laudanum_, or at least without ill Consequences. Therefore I shall conclude they all fall under the Power of a Resolute COURSE of EXERCISE. The Exercises most proper here are _Riding_, and the use of the _Cold Bath_; the first prepares for the second; which Rule if some People, who are the most weakly, wou’d observe, they might secure themselves, from some of those few Accidents that have befel the too rash entrance into the Cold Bath. Instead of Riding on horse-back, Women may take a Chaise, which will allow of swift Motion, and comes little short of the Horse for Agitation of the Body; tho’ I can’t see any breach of _Decorum_, if a Lady, attended with a Servant, should ride on Horse-back daily for Health, if she like it best; as for those, who upon the Account of their being very Fat, have some Reason to be cautious, how they go into the Cold Bath, lest some Apoplectick Symptoms should ensue, they may have recourse to another of those Exercises, which I shall treat of, _viz._ the use of the _Brush_, or _Chafing_, which if us’d in good earnest, will not prove so trivial as perhaps some People imagine it to be. These are the Chief Exercises which I would recommend in this Case, and which if us’d with Prudence and Application, I doubt not are able to effect a compleat and Eradicative Cure of this Distemper, as certainly as more violent internal Means are expected to succeed in any other Case, the Spirits and Nerves being not so much more untractable, than the Blood and Humours, if treated after a manner suitable to their Nature.