Category: Health & Medicine
Our Girls by Dio Lewis, A.M., M.D., President of "The Normal Institute for Physical Education," Physician in Chief to "a Swedish Movement Cure," Author of "New Gymnastics for Men, Women, and Children," "Weak Lungs, and How to Make Them Strong," "Talks About People's Stomachs,"...
Our Girls by Dio Lewis, A.M., M.D., President of "The Normal Institute for Physical Education," Physician in Chief to "a Swedish Movement Cure," Author of "New Gymnastics for Me...
2. Part 2But given perfect freedom at the middle of the body, through which all the movements in walking must pass,--given this freedom of the trunk, with good shoes, and you have the pr...
3. Part 3Undeveloped peoples, in the service of false religions, maltreat their bodies; and even followers of Christ have immured themselves in dark cells, and caves, carried the accumul...
4. Part 4He went on: "The other day when the girls got ready to go into the country, we held our first family council. My poor wife, who is all worn out, couldn't bear to have the girls...
5. Part 5On my rounds I kept thinking what a perfect couple Miss Dinsmore and Mr. Finlay would make! I determined, without saying a word to either, to give them an opportunity to see eac...
6. Part 6"One of the most innocent and pleasant amusements that has attracted attention for some time, is the making of aquaria. The cases are formed of plate glass, square, oblong, circ...
7. Part 7Nothing, this side of God, do men revere, as they revere virtuous women. Let it be known among men, that the victims of their lust have been taken under your protection, and the...
8. Part 8Now look at them. See the red spots on her cheeks; they tell us of struggling modesty and innocence. The story proceeds; the lascivious gestures, the lecherous gaze of the men a...
9. Part 9A local disease is impossible. The organism is one and not many. Even a gun-shot wound is not a local trouble. Suppose a man's little finger is shot away. The man is not in the...
10. Part 10The next system of treatment for invalids will be the "Sun-Cure." Institutions will be established, to which patients will flock for the cure of chronic maladies. Affections of...
11. Part 11Two or three years ago, while visiting a dear friend in the country, in a neighborhood where I knew many of the people, my friend proposed to invite in my acquaintances for an e...
12. Part 12They began, and when they came to the part where they said, "we will support your family with our needles; we should be proud and happy to do so, if you will only close your pla...
13. Part 13Girls came to our school with the stipulation that they should not room above the second story, not being able to climb higher, who within five months, walked ten miles in three...