An inquiry into the nature and causes of lateral deformity of the spine : in reference, more especially, to the pernicious effects of certain moral and physical influences, resulting from the modern system of female education : with practical hints for the prevention and cure of this affection / by Edward Duffin.

  • Duffin, Edward W.
Date:
1835
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and causes of lateral deformity of the spine : in reference, more especially, to the pernicious effects of certain moral and physical influences, resulting from the modern system of female education : with practical hints for the prevention and cure of this affection / by Edward Duffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [n school, or in the house, the older at optional studies or work, the younger at play 5sJ* At meals ] Exercise in the open air 1 The above account was taken from a second or third-rate school, and applies more particularly to the season most favour- able for exercise, summer Callisthenics form a class of exercises, in many instances, highly to be recommended. When first introduced into this country, they were of much too athletic and violent a kind; but by judgment and experience, they are at length re- duced to a series of graceful, dignified, and natural movements, admirably adapted to promote an equa- ble evolution of the physical powers, and to call into action, in regular succession, every part of the mus- cular system. In the prevention of deformity these exercises, properly conducted, are invaluable, and by their influence on the general health, through - the medium of the muscular system, have, in nume- rous instances, wherein obliquity has actually taken place, alone sufficed to remedy the evil. It may here be proper to inquire into the merits of dancing, and the use of dumb-bells. Dancing, as it combines the advantages of exer- cise with those of agreeable and exhilarating re- creation, is extremely useful. When taught by a * The younger only hours.