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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    montbs he says that he often perspired so that small icicles would form on the ends of his hair. Asking if did not come a little stiff sometimes, on stormy nights, or when he was very tired, and whether he did not omit his exercise at such times, he said no; but, on the contrary, added two miles, which shows the timber the man was made of. On the eighteenth of June of the same }'ear, just five mouths from the start, he weighed but two hundred and fifteen pounds, having actucdhj taJcen off ninety 'pounds, and had so altered that his for- mer clothes would not fit him at all. Since that time we have again seen him, and he says he is now down to two hundred, and that he has taken to horseback-riding, as he is fond of that. He looks to-day a large, strong, hearty man of about five feet ten, of rather phlegmatic temperament, but no one would ever think of him as a fat man. Now here is a man, well known to hundreds of the lawyers of the New York Bar, a living example of what a little energy and determination will accomplish for a person who sets about his task as if he meant to perform it. During the war, M , a member of the Bos- ton Police force, known to the writer, was said to weigh three hundred and fifteen pounds, and was certainly an enormously large man. He went South, served for some time as stoker on a gun-
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