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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    down the next aisle, and back to the place from which you started. Walk the same distance in this way daily the first week, clear around the room daily the second week, and around it twice each day after that right along. You will now begin to find that you have muscles on the sides or corners of your shoulders, if you never discovered it before. PAET IV.—THE UPPER-BACK. FIRST upper-back exercise. Directions.—1. Stand erect, with the chin up high, a dumb- bell in each hand, and your arms straight out in front of you as high as your shoulders. 2. Draw one elbow smartly backward, as in fig. 23 [in original], and hold it there. 3. Now do the same with your other elbow. 4. Eepeat this exercise ten times with each elbow. Do it ten times daily the first week, fifteen times a day during the second week, and twenty times daily after that right along. SECOND upper-back exercise. Directions.—1. With a dumb-bell in each hand, and breath- ing slowly and very deeply, raise both hands behind you, as in fig. 25 [in original]. 2. Breathe as deeply as you can, and hold your breath in all the time the dumb-bells are up. 3. Keep the elbows straight, hold the head back, and be sure to keep the backs of your hands turned upward all the time you are thus raising the dumb-bells back of you. 4. Eepeat this six times. Eaise the dumb-bells in this way six times daily the first week, ten times each day the second week, and as many times daily after that as you can with ease. This is fine ivork for the back of the shoulder and the whole upper-back; for holding your head back thus stiffly sets at work the back of the neck and the middle of the upper-back, and raising the dumb-bells behind you sets at work the back of your shoulders and all across the back just under your arms —indeed, about the whole of the upper-back.