Health and strength-giving home gymnastics for every man, woman and child : no family should be without Largiader's apparatus for strengthening the chest and limbs (patented) / Krohne and Sesemann.

  • Krohne & Sesemann.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: Health and strength-giving home gymnastics for every man, woman and child : no family should be without Largiader's apparatus for strengthening the chest and limbs (patented) / Krohne and Sesemann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from The Chemist and Druggist, October 3, 1896.] LARGIADER’S APPARATUS For training the muscles by gradual increased resistance. Messrs. Kkohne & Sesemann, 37, Duke Street, Man¬ chester Square, W., bring under our notice this apparatus for muscular exercise, which is of special interest at the present moment when medical men are beginning to appreciate the value of gentle arm exercise as a remedial agent in diseases of the thoracic organs. The apparatus consists of a rope, or rather twTo, each being fixed in a polished mahogany handle, the one rope sliding through the handle of the other. At the ends are weights, divided into five or more discs, sliding over a steel catch which permits the weights to be removed. This catch secures the rope, but it is so arranged that the rope can be shortened or otherwise adapted to the height of the person using the apparatus. In a sense the apparatus is a set of dumb-bells, and can be used as such, but it has the additional advantage of presenting to the user a degree of resistance which is highly beneficial for the development of the chest. The figure shows the manner of using the apparatus; but we have before us a sheet illustrating about a hundred different postures that the user may assume. The great advantage of the apparatus is that the weight can be graduated so easily, and its adaptation in this direction and in length makes it suit¬ able for several persons in a household. Mr. Theodore Zahn, a German physical instructor, has written a book about the apparatus, in which he shows its capabilities for muscular exercise. We introduce the apparatus to the notice of the drug trade, partly for the benefit of the many who feel that the sedentary life of pharmacy does not give them sufficient opportunity for exercise, and partly that those who do business in surgical appliances may add the apparatus to their stock. It is made in five sizes, which cover the requirements of children, weak adults, and robust adults. The nrices range from 7/6 to 15/- T - - 2250 0877 \ WELLCOME INSTITUiE LIBRARY Coll. | wel?v50mco foil. I pam <2t Z55 fs'o. / S *?£ OPINION OF “LANCET.” LARGIADER’S FOE STEENGTHENING- THE CHEST AND LIMBS. Messrs. Kkohne & Sesemann, of Duke Street, Man¬ chester Square, W., have submitted to us an ingenious, effective, and portable apparatus for the practice of home gymnastics. Its leading principle is a dexterous modifi¬ cation of ordinary dumb-bells, whereby the weights exert force simultaneously in the vertical and the horizontal directions. The dumb-bells are replaced by two cast-iron cylinders about three inches in diameter and three and a half inches high, each of which weighs about four and three-quarter pounds, and is divisible, if required, into seven nearly equal flat discs perforated in the centre and threaded upon an iron rod. A stout cord several feet in length is fastened by one of its ends to each of these rods, and each cord passes loosely through a longitudinal hole in a wooden handle, similar to, but larger than, an ordinary skipping-rope handle; the free end of each cord after being passed through one of these handles is securely fixed to the other handle. There is, therefore, a double cord between the two handles, and when the weights are lifted from the floor by means of them the arms have to exert much force, not only in raising the weights but in resisting the ten¬ dency of the handles to be drawn together in the hori¬ zontal direction. This simple apparatus provides a means of powerfully exercising the muscles of the arms, chest, and abdomen; the effects being varied according to the position of the hands. Most people will find the complete set of weights to be more than sufficient and will be dis¬ posed to reduce them, which is easily done by removing some of the discs. When used in moderation and under judicious supervision, these exercises are well adapted for weakly or ill-developed persons who are free from marked organic disease. The apparatus is supplied in five gradu¬ ated sizes, suitable for children and adults, varying in weight from four to eighteen pounds each pair. 97