My system : 15 minutes' exercise a day for the health's sake / by J.P. Muller.

  • Müller, J. P. (Jørgen Peter), 1866-1938.
Date:
1939
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Credit: My system : 15 minutes' exercise a day for the health's sake / by J.P. Muller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Few Words about Apoxyomenos The picture on the cover of this book is from a photograph of the antique marble statue, now in the Vatican in Rome^ which was found in 1849 in a broken state at Trastevere, near Rome. Apoxyomenos (Greek—the scraper) represents a young man clean- sing himself with a bronze scraper, after athletic exercises, of oil, sweat, and dust. The marble statue is a copy of the bronze statue, well known in ancient times, by the Greek sculptor Lysippos (360-316 b.c.). Much has been written about this statue, but all concur in praising its beauty, and in admiring the Greeks, who, by means of their athletic sports and physical training, were able to produce human forms fit to serve as models for such sculpture. I have expressly chosen Apoxyomenos from among the many beautiful statues of antiquity to decorate the cover of my book because he is the embodiment of the contents of it: he is the Athlete cleansing and caring for his skin after exercise, and is thus the Ideal towards which my book points. Under this pseudonym, generally abbreviated to A pox or Ap, I wrote for a number of years on Athletics in Danish papers. WELLCOME INSTITUTE LIBRARY Coll. welfvlOmec Call No. MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE STANHOPE PRESS LTD. ROCHESTER I : KENT