How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liaiid, with the care which Maclaren or Sargent could so well give, gradually advanced in every direction, would _suddenly find that his narrow, thin, and hollow chest had departed, had given way to one round, full, deep, and roomy; that the feeble lungs and heart vfhich, in cooler weather, were formerly hardly up to keeping the ex- tremities warm, are now strong and vigorous; that the old tendency to lean his head forward wdien standing or walking, and to sit stooping, with most of his vital organs cramped, has all gone. In their place had come an erect carriage, a firm tread, a strong, well-knit trunk, a manly voice, and a buoyancy and exhilaration of spirits worth untold wealth. Who will say that all these have not assured him yeai's of life ? Well, but did all this increase of weight and size actually change the shape of the chest, for instance, and take the hollowness out of it ? That is exactly what it did; and Maclaren has a draw- ing of the .same chest at the beginning and end of the yeai', showing an increase in the breadth, depth, and fulness, of the lower chest which makes it seem almost impossible that it could have belonged to the same person. It will be remem- bered that Maclaren claimed^ that just such a re- 1 See page 145.
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