A concise and rational course in hypnotism . ungswhich Nature has given them for a wise purpose. I wish it were possible for me toimpress upon the men and women of this country a thorough understanding of the vastinjury which they are inflicting upon themselves by not developing and using in a ra-//^\ tional manner all the muscles of their bodies. Physical training for the cure of disease is very old. Reputable travelers and historians tell us that the Chinese had reduced it, and also breathingand bathing, to a science 2,600 years before the birth of Christ. Through the use of this system, the
A concise and rational course in hypnotism . ungswhich Nature has given them for a wise purpose. I wish it were possible for me toimpress upon the men and women of this country a thorough understanding of the vastinjury which they are inflicting upon themselves by not developing and using in a ra-//^\ tional manner all the muscles of their bodies. Physical training for the cure of disease is very old. Reputable travelers and historians tell us that the Chinese had reduced it, and also breathingand bathing, to a science 2,600 years before the birth of Christ. Through the use of this system, theycured every form of disease that was curable. Winning a prize in the gladiatorial games in Rome assured the winner a life annuity. Down to theintroduction of poisonous medicine by doctors, it was the prime and important curative agent of the movement cure was established in Sweden by Peter Henry Ling, in 1813. Stockholm now boastsof a number of these concerns which are under government control. One of these schools at St. Peters-. burg is the largest in the world and treats thousands of cases annually. The celebrated Dr. Taylor saysof these treatments: There is scarcely any chronic disease known that is not successfully treated at theseinstitutions. It is said that there are now more than fifty of these institutions scattered throughout the ancient nations of the earth practiced mechanical operations upon the body for the cure of historians tell us of the order of Brahmin Healers, three hundred years before the Christian era, whocured by these methods. In Sparta/ says Dr. Taylor, physical culture over-topped everything else, thewomen being required to train as well as the men. The Greatest Men of the World have regarded training of the muscles as of the greatest importance. Dally says: Movement is one of theprimordinal products of life and the regulator of all vital conditions. Pliny says: The mind is stimu-lated by movements of the body. Gal
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