What I have said of these three Cases, may serve to illustrate the necessity of this Method in some few other Cases, which I need only Name; as the _Scorbutick Rheumatism_, which being a Nervous Case, will admit of the three Exercises I have mention’d, which if strenuously put in Practice at proper Seasons, will do Wonders in the removing of those Pains. The _Nervous Atrophy_ is another Case, which may be remov’d by a Gymnastick Method, when all the Pompous Internal Medicines will not avail. _Lastly_, there is one more Case, to which Riding seems to be in a peculiar manner appropriated, and that is, that Decay of Nature which is occasion’d by Passions of the Mind, which we commonly call, Breaking the Heart; here the Spirits are broke, and ruined by the stress of Thought, the Mind drinks up the Vital Fluids, and the Ravage proceeds so fast, that nothing can avail, but what can in some Measure interrupt the Eagerness of Thought, and repair in Proportion to the wast of the Spirits, which Riding seems most likely to do, because it gives an Alacrity beyond that of Wine; because the Briskness of the Motion, must take a Man off from close thinking, and such Exercise continued long, even to some Journeys, must by Tiring incline to Rest, and break off those voluntary Wakings and anxious Thoughts, which are so pernicious; and if some intervals of Ease can be gain’d in this Case, there is hopes that Reason or Religion may take place, and the Passions may be laid: For ’tis the first Fury that is the most Dangerous and Violent; if that can be manag’d, the Point is gain’d, and there is nothing like Hurrying the Body, to divert the Hurry of the Mind. These are most of, if not all, the Cases which fall under the Power of Exercise as Curative; as for the Benefit which may be obtain’d by Exercise, in the Gravel, the Gout, and the like, it is purely Palliative, and therefore out of the Scope of my intention in this Treatise: I shall now proceed to consider briefly, those several Sorts of Exercise, which seem proper to my Design. And here I shall not insist upon the various Exercises of the Ancients, or all those in Use now in our Days, but shall make choice of but a few, that seem most Compatible with the Weakness and Infirmities of Sick People, and the particular Circumstances of those Distempers which I have already mention’d, and I shall begin with the chief of ’em, which is that of RIDING. OF THE EXERCISE OF RIDING.