which I have given of it.
Sydenham
is very lavish in its Praises; and if the
English
Reader will see the Mechanical Effects of it describ'd at length, he may find them in a Book published not many Years since, under the Title of
Medicina Gymnastica
. For my own part, when I am in Town, for want of these Opportunities, I exercise myself an Hour every Morning upon a dumb Bell that is placed in a Corner of my Room, and pleases me the more because it does every thing I require of it in the most profound Silence. My Landlady and her Daughters are so well acquainted with my Hours of Exercise, that they never come into my Room to disturb me whilst I am ringing.