The apparatus for medico-mechanical gymnastics, and their use / by Gustaf Zander.

  • Gustaf Zander
Date:
1894
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Credit: The apparatus for medico-mechanical gymnastics, and their use / by Gustaf Zander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preface. With this book I lay before the public the first complete description in English of all my apparatus hitherto constructed for pedagogic, orthopedic and medical gymnastics, with the hope that my mechanico- therapeutical method may meet with the same success in the English-speaking part of the- world as it has in Germany where at present 31 more or less fully equipped^so called Zander Institutes have been established. The practical minds of the English and the Ame- ricans will surely be attracted by a hygienic means which is able not only to overcome general and local states of debility, but also prevents them by the har- monious development and strengthening of the entire organism. It may be more convenient, and is considered as a less waste of time to cure diseases by taking me- dicine than by taking one hour's exercise daily. But the increased well-being and capacity for work which are the never failing result of these mechanico-gymnastic exercises are a very rich compensation for the time bestowed on them. For a man of business, that »health is money > may be as great a truth as that »time is money.J GoranssonsMekaniska Verkstad Company Li- raited to whose director, Mr. E. F. Goransson C. E., I owe the technical and industrial development of my invention, has the exclusive right of manufacturing my gymnastic apparatus under my control. He is willing
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