The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . , and perhaps benefit will be afforded by a number goingthrough the movements together like soldiers under command, Exercise without Apparatus. 37 and even to the accompaniment of music. But no class is neces-sary ; every one can exercise himself. There are few who would fail to derive a benefit which wouldastonish them, from devoting twenty minutes daily to these gradu-ated exercises. They also form excellent means for the physicaleducation of children. FIRST MOVEM


The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . , and perhaps benefit will be afforded by a number goingthrough the movements together like soldiers under command, Exercise without Apparatus. 37 and even to the accompaniment of music. But no class is neces-sary ; every one can exercise himself. There are few who would fail to derive a benefit which wouldastonish them, from devoting twenty minutes daily to these gradu-ated exercises. They also form excellent means for the physicaleducation of children. FIRST MOVEMENT. Place the hands upon the hips, the heelstogether, the toes turned out. Turn the head fromright to left (six times in each direction), countingone, two. The head should be turned so as tocarry the chin nearly directly over the the head to the front and rest a moment. SECOND MOVEMENT. Bend the head to the right and then to the left (six times in each direction), counting one, two. At one, incline the head toward the right shoulder; at two, raise it and repeat the movement toward the other shoulder. Fig. Movement 1.


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