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

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    CHAPTER X. WORK FOE THE FLESHY, THIN, AND OLD. While the endeavour has been made to point out the value of plain and simple exercise—for, in a later chapter, particular woi’k will be de- signated which, if followed systematically and persistently, will correct many physical defects, substituting good working health and vigour for weakness—the reply may be made, “Yes, these are well enough for the young and active, but they will not avail a fleshy person, or a slim one, or one well up in years. Let us see about this. Take, first, those bur- dened with flesh which seems to do them little or no good, and which is often a hindrance, dulling and slackening their energies, preventing them from doing much which they could, and which they be- lieve they would do with alacrity were they once freed from this unwelcome burden. There are some persons with whom the reduction of flesh be- comes a necessity. They have a certain physical task to perform, and they know they cannot have either the strength or the wind to get through with
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