Health by exercise : What exercises to take and how to take them, to remove special physical weakness. Embracing an account of the Swedish methods, and a summary of the principles of hygiene / By Geo. H. Taylor, M. D.

  • Taylor, Geo. H. (George Herbert), 1821-1896.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Health by exercise : What exercises to take and how to take them, to remove special physical weakness. Embracing an account of the Swedish methods, and a summary of the principles of hygiene / By Geo. H. Taylor, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    cussion oi a few single movements. With those whe have had a previous training with the duplicated move- ments^ the directions herein contained will be of the greatest service, not only for the purpose of carrying on the curative processes to results of greater perfec- tion, but also for preventing a recurrence of the com- plaint, since it is the prime object of the treatment to secure to the invalid the intelligent and permanent command of himself. 2. There is in the community a very large class of persons who might be called half-invalids—persons who do not possess a satisfactory amount of health, but who at the same time feel that they are not the proper subjects for medical care. Such persons feel ihat they are forewarned of disease, and would gladly attempt to avert it, could they obtain such directions for doing so as would meet the approbation of their reason or instinctive sense of physiological propriety. Current medical practice takes no cognizance of these cases; or if it does, it is in such a way as often to confirm the subject in serious and prolonged disease. Aware of this fact, many keep aloof from medical advice of any kind, and insist that suffering in any of the more moderate forms is less a misfortune than the habit of gulping drugs for the palliation they afford. For per- sons of this class, it is evident that it is not drugs, but such easily pe/formed self-training as that of which examples and directions are here given, that is re- quired. By this means, the abundant latent powers which they possess are developed into activity and harmony, and they soon rejoice in health, while the neg- lect or continued misdirection of these would eventually hav^e degenerated into grave, and perhaps fatal, disease.