Health-exercise : the rationale and practice of the lifting-cure or health lift / by Lewis G. Janes.

  • Janes, Lewis G. (Lewis George), 1844-1901.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Health-exercise : the rationale and practice of the lifting-cure or health lift / by Lewis G. Janes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than quantity of muscle, based upon sound and healthy vital conditions, that gives permanent and enduring strength. To the growing child and youth who desires symmetry and firmness without the unwieldy clumsiness of abnormal muscular development, to the man or woman who would preserve or re- store the form which nature intends to bestow upon a human being, to those of an advanced age who would arrest decay and prolong life, with the full use of every faculty, our system of physical training offers equally the most certain and effective method of securing these ends. As illustrations of the foregoing principles, I select from our records the following cases: ist. Mr. A., of Boston, printer, very corpulent, weight, 170 pounds on commencing treatment, in six weeks reduced his waist measurement five and one-half inches, increased the chest three inches, with a gain of two pounds in weight. 2d. Mr. G., of Boston, height five feet two inches on com- mencing, very small and slight in weight, in three months' exercise increased his height fully half an inch, weight increased fourteen pounds, chest three inches, waist two inches. His health was wonderfully improved, as he will to-day attest, al- though this comparison was made some three years ago. 3d. Mr. P., insurance agent, Massachusetts, in six weeks re- duced his weight from two hundred and twenty-five to two hundred pounds, and his waist measurement three inches, though an ardent practice of the national game of base-ball had previously failed to effect the desired change. Similar re- sults followed the treatment of Mr. W., paper manufacturer, who, after three months' practice, purchased an apparatus for home use, so much was he gratified with the result. 4th. Mr. B., student, tall and slender, seventeen years old, nearly six feet in height, chest thirty inches, waist twenty-seven inches, in three months reduced his height three-quarters of an