. Annals of hygiene. nd even on the third day before going toschool. (7o be concluded in October issue.) THE NECESSITY OF PHYSICALEDUCATION.! BY , ,OF DOVER, ,Member State Board of Health of NewHampshire. The ancient Egyptians and Persians hadtheir physical training and athletic sports, ?Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases. f Read before State Sanitary Convention, heldin Philadelphia May 12, 13, 14. From advancesheets of Annual Report. 432 TEE ANNALS OF EYGIENE. which are described by Diodorus, Herod-otus, Strabo and other writers, but thefirst systematic physical educati
. Annals of hygiene. nd even on the third day before going toschool. (7o be concluded in October issue.) THE NECESSITY OF PHYSICALEDUCATION.! BY , ,OF DOVER, ,Member State Board of Health of NewHampshire. The ancient Egyptians and Persians hadtheir physical training and athletic sports, ?Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases. f Read before State Sanitary Convention, heldin Philadelphia May 12, 13, 14. From advancesheets of Annual Report. 432 TEE ANNALS OF EYGIENE. which are described by Diodorus, Herod-otus, Strabo and other writers, but thefirst systematic physical education as a ne-cessity of popular culture was practiced bythe Greeks; they had gymnasiums andbetter regulated athletic social sports, yetEuripides spoke of Grecian professional France, Jahn the father of German Tur-ners, Clais in Switzerland, Nachtigall inDenmark, Ling in Sweden, Maclaren inEngland, Beck, Folen, Dio Lewis andothers in America. In 1849 a law was passed in Switzer-land to make calisthenics and gymnastics. 1. Abduction. athletes as being useless and injuriousmembers of society. Later, we find a still better develop-ment of physical training among the Do-rians and the Spartans. Xenophon calledt he Spartans the healthiest of all the Greeks. Martin Luther and other reformers ad-vocated gymnastic and physical education,and later advocates were Rousseau in 2. Adduction. obligatory in educational institutions. Allwho have this important sanitary measureat heart hope and wish that this countrymay follow that example ; because mentaland physical culture are the most neces-sary conditions for the maintenance andpropagation of republican principles, andfor a vigorous, prosperous, free applied, physical exercise is a THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. 235 very important aid to circulation andmixing of our blood, digestion and assim-ilation of the food, growth, production andreproduction of the system. Breathing is accelerated by rationalbodily exercise, and a more appropriate
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