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  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Body shapes, female
  • Ivory Chinese diagnostic doll
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Tow years later, at 39.
  • Types os superb physical manhood who have been developed to this high degree of physical fitness and resistant power to disease by the very methods I am advocating in this book, and have been advocating consistently all over the world for the past quarter of a century. This is the type of youthfull manhood that we could and should have had if my advice had been taken and followed, as recruits, instead of such weedy specimens of humanity as shown in the previous picture.
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. (Left) The original Farnese Hercules, to whom the Author has been compared. The accompanying photo shows- (Right) The Author in a similar pose. Many say that the Authors proportions are the more symmetrical of thw two.
  • A man unlocking a chastity belt on a woman
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Statuesque pose, from photo at about 26, with all muscles relaxed
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Author at about the same age, 21, showing symmetrical development and balanced physique of back, sholders and limbs
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Body shapes, female
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Body shapes, female, hands and feet
  • Woman suffering from cancer of the left breast
  • Scurvy; male figure.
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Eugen Sandow aged 52
  • The first photo shows the physical condition of the youth of the nation as revealed by the war. The second shows what can be achieved by scientific methods of physical education and culture, and how imperative such methods are to safeguard us against physical deterioration and disease in future years.
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. As He is To-Day. Stricking photo of the Author at 52, confirming his statement in this book that muscle, once built up, remains, to a great extent, always, provided the body is only given a few minutes daily exercise to maintain balance when once it is established
  • Diagnostic Dolls
  • W. Jarratt, Man as he should be, and as he was in the days wh
  • Body shapes, female
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Woman suffering from untreated cancer of the left breast
  • Eugen Sandow
  • Chinese ivory diagnostic doll used by female patients to indicate where their symptoms were.
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Photo at 37, with muscles relaxed
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. At 30, with muscles in contraction
  • Diagnostic Dolls, used by women patients to indicate areas of affliction to their doctors. Clockwise from top: Ivory, Japanese. Ivory, Chinese. White jade, Chinese. Ivory, Japanese. Ivory, Chinese. Ivory, Japanese. Ivory, Chinese. Ivory, Japanese.