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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    deepen the chest, and inflate the lungs—the very things the consnmptive needs. The out-dooi work secures him or her ample good air, vigorous exercise, and frequent change of scene. On the value of this good air, or rather of the danger of had air, hear Langenbeck,the great German anato- mist : “ I am sure now of what I suspected long ago, viz. that pulmonary diseases have very little to do with intemperance, * * * and much less with cold weather, but are nearly exclusively (if we except tuberculous tendencies inherited from both parents, I say quite exclusively) produced by the breathing of foul air.” This out-door work should also be steadily increased until the half-hour^s listless walk at first becomes six or eight miles before dinner, and as much more before supper, h’rom breakfast to supper one can hardly be exer- cising out-of-doors too much ; and steadily call- ing on the heart and lungs in these very favour- able ways, increased vigour and power are only what might have reasonably been looked for. As the months roll on, and this steady work, directed right to the weak spots, has strengthened and toughened you, now put larger weights on the Fig. 8 appliance, and also increase the number of strokes until you do a thousand or even two thousand daily—head and body always being held erect, and full breathing a constant accompani-
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