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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![system of simple yet vigorous daily exercise whicli, while quite free from the risks such contests entail, shall still he within the reach of all. The aim here has been, not to write a profound treatise on gymnastics, and point out how to eventually reach great performance in this art; but rather, in a way so plain and untechnical that even any intelligent boy or girl can readily understand it, to first give the reader a nudge to take better care of his body, and so of his health, and then to ])oint out one way to do it. That there are a hundred other ways is cheerfully conceded. If anything said here should stir uj) some to vigorously take hold of, and faithfully follow up, either the plan here indicated or any one of these others, it cannot fail to bring them marked benefit, and so to gratify. , The Author. New Yorlc, April, 1879. The Delegates of the Oxford Press have kindly allowed the tables in the Appendix to be reprinted from MaclareiPs “ Physical Education/’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28079656_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
