Physical culture . your com-plaint, may be, a large amount of nerv-ous energy is absolutely essential in orderto bring about a definite and permanentcure. The failure of the body to prop-erly maintain a high degree of health, isnearly always due to functional difficul-ties brought about through improperdiet, muscular inactivity, dissipation,and various other evils that are foundeverywhere in this enlightened (?) in curing an ailment of any kind,the functional system must, of course, beset right. It must be made to workharmoniously, and the vastly increasedamount of nervous energy that
Physical culture . your com-plaint, may be, a large amount of nerv-ous energy is absolutely essential in orderto bring about a definite and permanentcure. The failure of the body to prop-erly maintain a high degree of health, isnearly always due to functional difficul-ties brought about through improperdiet, muscular inactivity, dissipation,and various other evils that are foundeverywhere in this enlightened (?) in curing an ailment of any kind,the functional system must, of course, beset right. It must be made to workharmoniously, and the vastly increasedamount of nervous energy that can besecured and actually stored up by thebody from the following up of the theo-ries I am herewith advocating, wouldcause every organ of the body to workmore smoothly and harmoniously, anddisease of any nature would slowly butsurely begin to disappear. Vital vigoris at the highest point when throughconstant efforts you have been able todevelop a degree of muscular and vitalstrength necessary to actually force the. Lie flat on back. Now raise central portion of body, arching back as show in illustration,and resting weight of body on back of head and the heels. Hold weight for a brief momentthen relax, reclining on back, and repeat the exercise. This exercise is very difficult andconsiderable strength mast be acquired before it can be satisfactory performed. 342 PHYSICAL CULTURE body into a proper performance of itsduties. Then you will rind that yourailment, whatever its nature may be, hasalmost entirely disappeared. DISEASE INDICATES VITAL DEPLE-TION Disease, regardless of its nature, innearly all cases indicates vital vitality is lowered below the supply of nervous energy has beenmaterially lessened, or else the nervecenters through some difficulty are notable to properly supply the required en-ergy. All these results are caused inmost cases by what we term vital deple-tion, and this lack of vitality or lack ofnervous energy can be satisfactorilyreme
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