A guide to the physical training of youth of both sexes.

  • Phillips, John.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A guide to the physical training of youth of both sexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not having had their bodies properly developed, have fallen victims to their own incapacity; so that it may be said, without risk, many parents would have preserved their children, if they had had the precau- tion to give them a more vigorous education. Again, how very many of the lovely youth of both sexes are the subjects of deformity and affliction, from want of proper physical treatment in their tender age? Let any person of judgment (when walking through the streets of a city) give attention to this for an hour or so. and he will be struck with the truth of the as- • sertion. A vast number of persons may be met with, even of more mature age, who are the subjects of the decrepitude and infirmities incident to old age. These things ought to teach parents to guard their children against contracting such injurious habits, the appearance of which bespeak great neglect, to say the least, in addition to an unfavourable exterior, which, in itself, tends to depreciate even real worth; whereas a graceful carriage and elegance of deport- ment prepossess in the favour of their possessor. A light and easy gait is of great advantage to persons on a journey, enabling them to endure long marches without suffering inconvenience thereby. The author of this work can recollect many instances of deliverance from imminent danger, through a kind Providence, in the use of physical expedients; when travelling by land and water, from zone to zone, in the service of his country, frequently has his health been re-established and preserved, by resorting to such necessary and natural exercises; and from what he