Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-14
LIFTING THREE THOUSAND POUNDS

The Herald Of Health gives a striking &C
count Of DR.. G. B. Winship, the strong
man, who is a physician in Boston:
He is the fourth physician Of the family
Instead Of giving drugs TO his patients, he
gives exercise to strengthen them, and good
hygienic advice. He is generally opposed
TO the use Of drugs. He can lift 2,60C
pounds, intending to go on to 5000 pounds
and stop there. His history is remarkable
While in college he had practiced gymnas
tics, but after while discontinued them
when enc day he was tainted as being the
smallest in his class, which was true. He
afterwards was grossly insulted by a class.
mate who was larger and stronger than him
self, who also told him TO help himself il
he could.
He then determined TO put himself on an
equality with his antagonist, and said TO a
friend, await two years and | promise you
win make my tormentor apologize, or give
him such trashing that he shall remember
il for the rest of his life" He practiced an
hour day for two years, when he was no
tOriously the strongest man in his class,
and he called on his opponent to apologize
or fight. The apology was given promptly.
Among other effects of physical training
he has found in himself aud others that il
has given steadiness TO his nervous system.
He used to be remarkably nervous, no that it
was torture TO hear the grating of a slate
pencil, the filing Of n saw, or scratching on
glass, but by exercise his nerves ceased to
be impossible by such things; headaches
and indigestion were removed. He seems to
think that too much exercise of this kind
might have an effect on the mental power.
Lifting he regards as of the greatest inn
portance. He says, both from his own ex-
perience and that of hundreds of his pupils,
that without regarding il alone as panacea,
but merely one means of improving the
health, he has found il the great remedial
agent in cases Of dyspepsia, pulmonary con-
sumption, hillary affections, neuralgia, chro-
mic rheumatism and general debility. He
recommends all his pupils to practise till
they can raise not less than thousand
pounds, nor more than fifteen hundred.
Muscular action NAV be excessive, but al
ways, probably, at the expense of intellectual
power. But muscular Development he regards
AZ always advantageous. He thinks that
lifting will tend TO expand the chest and
lungs better than any other exercise, though
il should not be practiced alone. II has
proved very successful, in a hygienic point
Of view, TO ladies, but it must not be too
much or suddenly attempted.
1t generally takes his patients little less
than three months TO double their lifting
power. He can "put up" a dumb bell
weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, with
one hand, and thinks we can increase it to
two hundred and thirty.
Students ought to try all this, at least to
the extent of keeping up health, but more
than that, with the hope Of uniting the high
est physical with the highest mental powers.
This is what makes natures true noblemen.
II might save thousands Of students from
untimely graves, and thousands more from
those dissipated habits which, in many cases,
arise from bodies over fed, but not duly ex-
ercised. II is by the well-balanced devel-
opment eff every power that the truest, and
most pure, and useful manhood is attained.