The aristocracy of health : a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture / by Mary Foote Henderson.

  • Henderson, Mary F. (Mary Foote), 1842-1931.
Date:
1904-
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Credit: The aristocracy of health : a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture / by Mary Foote Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Tlie world lias little relation with poor mortals, says Felix Oswald, excepting through their working pliysical machinery. The Prince of German philosophers is Fichte. Let his brain become congested, or his stomach decline to act, and what becomes of Fichte? What a rejoicing when humanity shall be re- claimed ! The men and women of the future, from whose brain, blood and brawn, the taint of disease lias been eliminated by generations of pure habit and un- tainted heredity, will be ashamed of weak nerves and poor digestion. The men and women of the future will not need the bolstering aid of poison to irritate or to paralyze, in order to live presentably or happily. THE POWER OF RESERVE FORCE WE are only as strong as our reserve force. It is the deposit to his credit that makes the rich man, and the credit deposit in the bank of life that makes the strong one. The strength of a nation is not so much indicated by a glittering army and navy, as by its reserve force which may command in time of need what suits its purpose. Nature has so fashioned her living creatures that they are normally capable of exerting greater strength than the ordinary requirements of existence demand. There is a reservoir of vital energy, intended to be broujiht out for unusual necessities onlv. No func- tion of the body is normally taxed to its utmost, except in moments of danger, for w^ere it otherwise, death