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 Y. WHY MEN SHOULD EXERCISE DAILY. The advantages to men of a well-built body, kept in tborougb repair, are very great. Those of every class, whose occupation is sedentary, soon come to appreciate this. Some part of the ma- chinery gets out of order. It may be the head, or eyes, or throat; it may be the lungs or stomach, liver or kidneys. Something does not go right. There is a clogging, a lack of complete action, and often positive pain. This physical clogging tells at once on the mental work, either making its accomplishment uncomfortable and an effort, or becoming so bad as to actually prevent work at all. It may make the man ill. There is very little doubt but that a large majority of ailments would be removed, or, rather, would never have come at all, had the lungs and also the muscles of the man had vigorous daily action to the extent that fre- qaent trial had shown best suited to that man’s wants. One of the quickest known ways of dis- pelling a headache is to give some of the muscles, those of the legs, for instance, a little hard, sharp
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