The other _Greek_ Writers speak much the same thing, and the Sense of most of ’em in this matter is contracted in _Oribasius_’s Collections. I shall only take Notice that they rely’d much on Exercise in the Cure of the _Dropsie_, wherein we almost totally neglect it; _Porrò motus, si quid aliud_ (says _Trallian_, one of the latest of ’em) _Hydropicis conducit, præcipuè qui fit per Mare, Equum, & Lecticam iis autem qui viribus constant, etiam Itio est utilissima_; which is no more than what _Hippocrates_ has advis’d before, in his _de internis Affection_. _Sect. 28._ He orders for one that has a Dropsie ταλαιπωρεέτω περιόδοισι πολλισι δι’ ἡμήρης, _Laboret circuitus multos de die._ And he makes use of the same Word in his Epidemicks, and almost always when he speaks of the Regimen of a Dropical Person, implying that tho’ it be a labour for such People to move, yet they must undergo it; and this is so much the Sense of _Hippocrates_, that Mons. _Spon_ has Collected it into one of the New _Aphorisms_, which he has drawn out of his Works. _Celsus_ says of this Case, _Concutiendum multâ Gestatione Corpus est_; and in another place, _Facilius in Servis quàm in Liberis tollitur, quia cum desideret famem, sitim, mille alia tædia, longamq; patientiam, promptius his succurritur, qui facilè coguntur, quam quibus inutilis libertas est_. I have made choice of these Citations, that I may not be thought to have apply’d the Use of Exercise to the Cure of the Dropsie, without Precedent; and if the Ancients in their Practice found the good Effects of it, we have much more reason to expect greater Advantage from such Measures, since we have a Medicine we use in this Case, which seems particularly to demand it; I mean the Chalybeate, of which I have already spoke elsewhere. But to return to my former Design; not only the _Greeks_ but the _Latin_ Writers also, are full of these Methods. The _Romans_ rather exceeded, than came short of the _Greeks_, in the Prosecution of _Gymnastick_ Courses; and _Asclepiades_, who liv’d in the Time of _Pompey_ the Great, was the Man who brought them into the most Universal Request. He call’d Exercises _the common Aids of Physick_, and wrote a Treatise, _de Frictione, & Gestatione_, which is mention’d by _Celsus_, in his Chapter _de Frictione_, but the Book is lost. He carry’d these Notions so far, that he invented the _Lecti Pensiles_, or Hanging Beds, that the Sick might be rock’d to sleep; which took so much at that time, that they came afterwards to make these Beds of Silver, and they were a great part of the Luxury of that People; he had so many particular ways to make Physick agreeable, understood so well the Τὸ Βέλπον of his Profession, was so exquisite in the invention of Exercises to supply the Place of much Physick, that perhaps no Man in any Age ever had the happiness to obtain so general an Applause; and _Pliny_ says, he by these means made himself the Delight of Mankind.