Collected papers on physical and military training / by Sir Lauder Brunton.
- Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Collected papers on physical and military training / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![wrestler of antiquity, who was able at last to carry a full- grown bull on his shoulders by beginning with it as a new-bom calf. Day by day he carried it as day by day it grew, and as it increased in weight so did the wrestler in strength, until at last he carried a full-grown bull with the same ease as a new-born calf. I remember a friend once remarking to me that, in walking up a hill, he took the greatest possible care not to lose a single step but to walk steadily uphill, because, he said, one step downwards was like a vote in the House of Commons which counts for two, because you have one to the bad instead Fig. 21. After ]\Iosso. Showing the effect of training, in increasing endurance as com- pared with Fig. 10, from the same person. Owing to a difference in the apparatus the height of the curves is not comparable. The amount of work done was really double that in Fig. 10. of one to the good. It is therefore important not to lose a step in training, but to go steadily onwards, though so gently as to prevent the necessity of stopping or going back. But fatigue and over-fatigue do not act only upon the muscles, they act upon the respiration and heart. The efi'ect of a quick run is known to us all, and so a person who is either too stout or is very bloodless will, on running upstairs, have to stand at the top unable to speak, so tliat in many cases time is really lost instead of saved by running up quickly instead of walking up- stairs slowly. But perhaps we do not all know what the cause of this quickened breathing is. It is really due to poisonous products which are formed by muscular action. This has been shown by a very interesting experiment. If a dog is poisoned by 'opium](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21358497_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
