Curvatures of the spine / by Noble Smith.

  • Smith, E. Noble (Eldred Noble), 1847-1906
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Curvatures of the spine / by Noble Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    THIRD FRONT-SHOULDER EXERCISE. Directions.—1. Take a dumb-bell in each hand. 2. Stand with the left foot forward about eight inches. 3. Hold the dumb-bells up in front of your shoulders. 4. Hold your chin up high, and breathe your chest entirely full. 5. Now strike swiftly out in front of you with your left hand, as in fig. 23 [in original]. 6. Draw your left hand back till it is near your left shoulder again. 7. Next strike out in the same way with your right hand. 8. Then draw it near your right shoulder again. 9. Now strike out again with your right hand, and then with your left, until you have struck out five times with each hand. Strike in this way five times daily the first week, eight times each day the second week, and ten times daily after that. FIRST SIDE-SHOULDER EXERCISE. Directions.—1. Stand erect. 2. Hold the chin up high. 3. Breathe a full, deep breath. 4. Let the air pass out slowly through your nostrils. 5. Now take two more such breaths. 6. Shut your fists. 7. Now strike sharply with your right fist straight up over your right shoulder. 8. Bring it quickly down, till level with your shoulder. 9. Then strike upward in the same way with your left fist over your left shoulder. 10. Keep on in this way, first with your right hand, then with your left, till you have struck upward five times with each hand. Strike thus five times with each hand daily the first week, ten times daily the second week, and twelve times each day after that. Now you are at steady exercise for your shoulders, that will make them stronger, little by little, before a year has gone, just as you are sure to be further on at the end of the year than you were at the beginning in arithmetic, geography, geometry, or whatever else you are studying.