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The question of remedies for these affections is one of the most perplexing that confronts the practising physician, for sleeplessness narcotic drugs, such as opium and its derivatives, morphia, etc., or the even more insidious chloral hydrate, can hardly be prescribed with safety. The condition is essentially a chronic one, and the danger of making slaves to the opium or chloral habit is great. For the digestive troubles we have various preparations of the digestive ferments, such as pepsin, pancreatin, etc., their compounds, and various attractive and costly elixirs containing them. While it is true that temporary benefit is often experienced from their use, it is equally true that their effects are too often only temporary. For the nervous troubles we can go up and down the gamut of nervines, nerve foods, phosphates, etc., often with benefit, but too often without effecting permanent cures. The trouble is, that while all those remedies, when properly used, are valuable for the relief of prominent symptoms, they do not reach the underlying causes of all these varied troubles. And this leads us to search out the cause. Of course the causes are various, but in a large proportion of cases we can trace the trouble to two leading causes: overwork, especially brain-work, and lack of fresh air and exercise. The struggle for existence is so sharp that men have no time for anything but the pursuit of gain. The merchant in his counting-room, the lawyer in his office, the clerk at his desk, the mechanic in his shop, all keep their brains wrought up to the highest tension; the apartments are too often ill ventilated and the temperature unnecessarily high. The consequence of all this is, that respiration is badly performed, the circulation becomes feeble and irregular, the unused muscles grow flaccid and weak, and the nervous apparatus, stimulated to excessive growth at the expense of the other departments of existence, grows rank and weedy, but with an imperfect, though excessive develop. ment, like a potato-sprout in a cellar. The balance of the physical functions is destroyed, and the whole machine runs irregularly and fitfully. What is the remedy ? Why, to restore the balance ; to recreate the enfeebled tissues ; to promote the removal of the old and their replacement with new and better tissues. For this purpose we have two sovereign remedies, oxygen and sunlight; and in order to avail ourselves of these we must make use of another, — exercise — muscular exercise. When we move a muscle we consume a portion of it, and this creates a demand for renewal. The absorbents take up the usedup material and the blood naturally flows more rapidly to the part bearing supplies, to make up waste; this tends to quicken the circulation, and the blood passes more rapidly and forcibly into the lungs, which, under this stimulus, expand more fully, giving better opportunity for the passage of carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) from, and of oxygen to, the blood. The increased demand upon the blood for new material calls for increased supplies of new material for it. The digestive organs feel the demand, and appetite is created or increased; and so the circle of cause and effect runs through the entire mechanism. At the same time, by exercising the muscles, we relieve the brain of the excess of blood, — which has rushed to it to supply the waste caused by excessive use, — and blood of better quality, though in smaller quantities, passes to it, rebuilding it more effectually while in a state of comparative rest. The law of life and growth seems to be alternation of rest and exercise. Excessive rest leaves old material in place and the part degenerates; excessive exercise causes excessive waste and the part degenerates. We must restore the balance by giving rest to that part of the system that is over-exerted habitually, and exercise to those parts which are habitually under-exerted. The average American man and woman of the middle and upper classes of society, as a rule, habitually over-exert their brains and nervous systems, and under-exert their  muscles ; hence, for them, the remedy is to exert their muscles and rest their brains. Hence, again, we must supply them with some form of exercise which shall exert their muscles, rest their brains, take them into the open air and sunshine, and at the same time be agreeable and attractive. The relatively small values of the various forms of exercise which are used in-doors, and merely as exercise, is due, I think, to the fact that they fulfil only one or two of these indications. They do exert the muscles, and, in so far, are beneficial, but being in-doors, the increased air-supply is not of first-class quality, and therefore not of first-class recreative power, and not being interesting and attractive in themselves, require much perseverance and steadiness of purpose to keep them up Now, among the methods of exercise which fulfil all the above requirements, walking and horseback exercise have long held, rightfully, the leading places. A daily morning walk, after, breakfast, is a delightful stimulant and tonic, and a horseback ride is even better, as including some healthy excitement, and giving a wider range of territory and greater change and variety of scene. The trouble with walking is, chiefly, that, on account of the limited speed, we cannot cover ground enough to secure constant change of scene, and tramping over welltrodden  paths gets monotonous and wearisome. The trouble with horseback riding is that many of those who need it most cannot afford to keep a horse fit for the saddle, nor the time required to get him ready for the ride and to care for him afterwards. If we could get a horse that would live on nothing, would always stand ready saddled so he could be mounted, and the brief leisure of the busy merchant or lawyer be utilized in riding instead of getting ready to ride, — that could be hitched up at the end of the ride and left till wanted without having to be rubbed down, fed, and watered, — then we might hope to induce busy men to spare some little time for exercise and health. Well, such a steed is obtainable, — a steed whose first cost does not exceed that of a good ordinary saddle-horse, who needs as food and drink only a few drops of oil once a week or so, — a steed that on good roads will carry you from fifty to one hundred miles in a day, — a steed that stands always saddled and ready to mount. In the bicycle we have this ideal steed, costing from one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars, new and first-class, easily mastered by any man in possession of his faculties, costing his happy owner little or nothing beyond the first investment. We have in it a means of exercise and recreation absolutely unequalled. Perched upon the slight saddle, gliding easily and rapidly over a good country road, the bicycler exerts moderately and gently nearly every muscle in his body, the blood flows faster through his veins, his lungs expand under the delightful stimulus and bring great drafts of pure air to vitalize the blood. The rapidly changing scene delights the eye and refreshes the weary brain, and the rider learns what recreation means. Dyspepsia disappears, insomnia vanishes, the muscles harden, the chest expands, the whole being dilates, and, for the nonce, it is a delight to be alive. The brain and nerves rested, tranquillized and refreshed, work more steadily, swiftly, and clearly, and the ideal of sano mens in sano corpore, — a sound mind in a sound body, — if not absolutely attained, is at least approached.