Woman's medical guide : containing essays on the physical, moral and educational development of females, and the homeopathic treatment of their diseases in all periods of life : together with directions for the remedial use of water and gymnastics / by J.H. Pulte.

  • Joseph Hippolyt Pulte
Date:
1863
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Credit: Woman's medical guide : containing essays on the physical, moral and educational development of females, and the homeopathic treatment of their diseases in all periods of life : together with directions for the remedial use of water and gymnastics / by J.H. Pulte. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    difficult to imitate by art. Watch the little child, too, that has learned to walk and prattle. Do we need a more perfect illustration of perpetual motion during its waking hours ? Give it free room and a few playthings, if they are only blocks of wood, and it will go through a series of posi- tions, stooping, twisting, doubling, turning over, that are incalculable and unapproachable. And you cannot quiet such a child; take away the playthings, and every legitimate source of amuse- ment, and your inkstand will be upset, your books ingeniously torn, the table-cloth dragged off, and the contents of the work-basket sent rolling; and if it be absolutely restrained from such questionable devices, it will make it up by fretting and fidgeting till the older head fairly aches. It is a most admirable arrangement, this incessant activity of the child, the inexorable law by which it lives, and which will turn the whole household upside down, sooner than sin against its own nature. For it lives by movement; fresh air and exercise are the mainsprings of its healthy physical life. Thus in the earliest years of life, nature's indications are very plain; and in exercise, as in the organic functions, the most perfect freedom, under favorable conditions, should be enjoyed by the child, that its own instinct may guide it. In a good foundation, lies the main strength of a superstructure; even so is it with a good con-