Kinetic jottings : miscellaneous extracts from medical literature, ancient and modern, illustrating the effects of mechanical agencies in the treatment of disease with remarks / by Augustus Gerogii.

  • Georgii, Augustus.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Kinetic jottings : miscellaneous extracts from medical literature, ancient and modern, illustrating the effects of mechanical agencies in the treatment of disease with remarks / by Augustus Gerogii. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    although as no measurement had been made, the perfect symmetry was not fully ascertained.” From this case, and from many others of the same nature, has been deduced a general law of important application. This law contains, according to Fr. L/., the two following principles, \iz., in the first instance, that there is often to be found among the boys in the public schools a “ Hemniungsbildung ^ as to the forms in the external part of the thorax, which diminishes the breathing power, causes a mechanic pressure on the heart, and thus induces the known symptoms of hypertrophy of the organ; and, secondly, that the physical education by means of gjunnastics should, in all such cases, not he inter- 'nipted, hut exchanged from pedagogic to medical gymnastics. To defend all kinds of g}^Tmiastics, as has often been the case in some countries, increases the evil. The patient is always improved by a well-balanced and localised medical gym- nastics, which soon enables him to resume a properly con- ducted pedagogic gymnastic for healthy youths. This is another proof of the importance of keeping the different subdivisions of gymnastics in their natural relation- ship as to practice. The founder of the Swedish method has certainly in his posthiunous work adopted the ancient sub- division of gynmastics, viz., one branch for the treatment of disease, called medical gymnastics, another branch for healthy persons, called pedagogic gymnastics ; a third branch fonnu- lating rules for attack and defence, in the wielding of weapons, the fencing with different weapons, corresponding to the agonistic of the Greeks, and therefore called military gymnastics. He has also from the pedagogic or hygienic branch sepaiated and developed a distinct branch, called aesthetic gymnastics, meant principally to be used by the ** By Mercuriales and other writers of the sixtcentli century, called “ Gijmnastica hcllica sive luctatoria.