Exercise for health : its science and practice ... containing an anatomical, dumb-bell, and other charts, with full explanations / by H.H. Hulbert and Luis J. Phelan.
- Hulbert, Henry Harper, 1863-
- Date:
- [1898]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Exercise for health : its science and practice ... containing an anatomical, dumb-bell, and other charts, with full explanations / by H.H. Hulbert and Luis J. Phelan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![charged with a good supply of oxygen and relieved of its carbonic acid gas, is sent back to the tissues from the lungs laden with car- bonic acid gas, and with less oxygen than is necessar}^ for their nourishment. It is here again surfeited with carbonic acid gas, one of the chief waste products of the tissues ; and as the day proceeds, the impurities accumu- late more and more in the blood ; the man goes home worn out with his work, raves at his household, is despondent about his business affairs, and after a time becomes hypochondriacal, and so a burden to all his companions; his system by this time has become impregnated with his waste products, and all kinds of nervous disorders, called by many different names, are the heritage of the sedentary man. Disorders which could have been so easily warded off by daily cleansing his internal economy, and ridding it of the waste products that have accumulated there, by using a suitable form of muscular exercise, either in the open air or in a well ventilated room. The ordinary individual pays great atten- tion to the supply of the fuel, otherwise he suffers pain from hunger, but he pays little heed to the necessity of a good expansion of his lungs for the supply of a sufficiency of oxygen, and still less attention to the getting rid of his waste products by exercise. Peo])le leading a sedentary, inactive life allow impuri- ties to accumulate in their systems, and lay the seeds of such painful diseases as gout and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28052080_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
