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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    they are put in motion, and when they are yut in motion only. The membrane which secretes this oil, and pours it forth over the opposing surfaces of the bones and the overlying ligaments, is stimulated to activity only by the motion of the joint itself.” Had Bryant spared himself as most men do, would he have been such a springy, easy w^alker, and so strong and handy at eighty-four ? Does it not look as if the half-hour at the dumb- bells, and chairs, and horizontal bar, and the twelve or fifteen thousand steps which he took each day, had much to do with this spring and activity in such a green old age ? Does it not look almost as if he had, half a century ago, read something not unlike the following from Maclaren :— “ The first course of the system may be freely and almost unconditionally recommended to men throughout what may be called middle life, care being taken to use a bell and bar well within the physical capacity. The best time for this practice is in the early morning, immediately after the bath, and, when regularly taken, it need not extend over more than a few minutes.” Whether Bryant had ever seen these rules or not, the bell, the bar, and the morning-time for exercise, make a noticeable coincidence. Looking at the benefit daily exercise brought in the instances mentioned, would it not be well for
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