The Codicil to "my will" for the healthy and the sick : containing chapters on the anatomy and care of the human body, gymnastic exercises, first help in accidents, cooking recipes, medicinal plants and the cure of diseases.

  • Kneipp, Sebastian, 1821-1897.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The Codicil to "my will" for the healthy and the sick : containing chapters on the anatomy and care of the human body, gymnastic exercises, first help in accidents, cooking recipes, medicinal plants and the cure of diseases. 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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    Marching with the staff behind. The upper part of the body is now inclined forward and comes into the position indicated in the accompany- ing illustration with the hind leg stretched out. The feet are placed flat on the ground while the po- sition of the staff is the same as in the preceding exercise. It is practised alternately with the left and right leg. Swinging Exercises. Many people especially those occupied in offices try to exercise themselves by taking up wood-sawing and chopping; but then everyone has not the opportunity of doing this and it is to these I recommend the following exercises which seem to me eminently practical. Both in sawing and chopping wood the arms make a movement while the rest of the body is almost tran- quil. The exercises I propose to take the place of these movements I call by their names viz., 1st, Felling with an axe. As the illustration shows, Felling with an axe. the jegg ^ pjaced somewhat sideways apart, the arms are raised high perpendicularly and the hands clenched.