Ling's educational and curative exercises / by M.J. Chapman.

  • Chapman, M. J. (Matthew James), -1865.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Ling's educational and curative exercises / by M.J. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These two happily survive, Professor Branting, who fills his place at Stockholm, and. Professor Greorgii, who for some years has been resident in London. Dr. Liedheck, the excel- lent physician of Stockholm, is Ling’s son-in-law, and one of his staunch champions and followers. Ling left behind him no complete digest of his system of mechanical therapeutics, but a manual—an edition of which, to be enriched with his own notes, so as to form an “ Organon of G3manastics,” Professor Georgii has promised us. Our breath is in our nostrils,—why has he not fulfilled his promise ? Only he, or Branting, could do it worthily. Pro- fessor Georgii is a consummate anatomist and physiologist, was for a long time Lecturer on Physiological Anatomy at the Eoyal Central Institution for Gymnastics at Stockholm, was for several years engaged in the study of pathology and clinical medicine at the schools and hospitals of Vienna and Paris, and received from the king of Sweden the “ brevet de professeur.” He is a thorough master of his art; and separate Professor, assisted by a principal instructor and an efficient staff of subordinate teachers, who in the two former divisions are both male and female. It is required that the Professor at the head of the Medical Depai-tment shall be a Physician, and over the Military Department an Officer of the Army. The control of the Institution is vested in a Board composed of a President and three members, appointed by the Government. Of these members one must be a Doctor of Medicine, one a member of the Board of Education or a Certificated Master of Public Schools, and one a Military Officer. For such persons as desire to obtain the qualification enabling them to obtain appointments at the public schools, and imder which alone they can practise Gymnastics in Sweden, a regular curriculum is prescribed. This course of study includes attendance on lectures on the following subjects :— Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Hygiene, together udth instmction in the theory and practice ,of Gymnastics, educational, military, and medical. The full course extends over two years, at the end of which time examinations are held on the various subjects taught and certificates of proficiency granted. Physicians who may wish Jo obtain the necessary diploma to enable them to practise medical Gymnastics are exempted from so long a continuance of study, as well as from attendance on the various lectures on Anatomy, &c. ; they are merely instructed, and at the end of their course examined, in the theory and practice of Gymnastics as applied to the treatment of disease.* In the case of the Commissioned Officers who are training for Anny and Navy Instmctors, as well as for those who only intend to practise Educational Gymnastics, the course of study, as well as the examination, are somewhat modified.—The Editor.