Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-04-02
xton Photograph Rooms No. Market Street. Wilmington Delaware
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1866.

LIFTING THRRR THOUSAND PoUNDs.-The
Herald OF Health gives striking account oi
DR.. g. Winship, the strong man, who ia q
physician OF Boston. lie is the fourth physi-
clan OF the iamily. Instead of giving drugs
TO his patients, he gives exercise to strengthen
them. and good hygienic advice. He is gen
orally opposed 10 the use of drugs. He can
lift 26OO pounds, intending TO go on to 5000
pounds, and stop there. His history is re-
markable. While In college he had praatced
gymnastics, but after while discontinu ed
them, when one day he was taunted as being
the smallest in his class, which was true
He afterwards was grossly insulted by a
classmate who was larger and stronger than
himself, who also told him to help himself II
he could. He then determined to put himself
on an equality with his antagonist, and said
to friend, "Wait two years, and | promise
you will make my termentor apologize, or
give him such thrashing that he shall re-
member it for the rest of his life." He prac-
ticed an hour day for two years, when he
was notoriously the strongest man in his class
aud he called on his opponent to apologize,
or fight. The apology was given promptly.
Among other effects OF physical training he
bas found 10 himself and others that il has
given steadiness to his nervous systom. He
used 10 be remarkably nervous so that it was
tcruTe to hear the grating of a slate pencil,
the filing of a saw, or scralching on glass, but
by exercise his nerves ceased to be impressible
by such things headaches and indigestion
were removed. He seems to think that too
much exercise of this kind might have aa effect
on the mental power.
Lifting he regards as of the greatest impor-
tanee. Ne says, both from his own experience
and that OF Hundreds Of his pupils, that with
out regarding 1t alone as a panacea, but
merely one means of improving health, he
has found it the great remedial agent 10 cases
OF dyspepsia, pulmonary consumption, hillary
affections, neuralgia, chronic rheumatism, and
general debility. He recon- mends all his
pupils to pra actice till they can raise not less
than a thousand pounds, nor more than fifteen
hundred.
Muscular action m " be excessive, but always
probably at the expense of intellectual pow
er, But muscular Development he regards AZ
always advantageous. He thinks that lifting
will tend to expand the chest snd the lungs
better than any other exercise though il
should not be practiced alone. He has proved
very successful, in hyglenic point of view,
to ladies, but it must no, be too much or sud-
denly attempted. 1t generally takes his pa
tents o little less than three months to double
their lining power. He can "put up" dumb
bell weighing i6o poundsiwith one hand and
thinks he eau increase it to 230.
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 highest
meuta powers. This is what makes NATURES
true noblemeu. 1t might save thousands OF
students from untimely graves, and thousands
more from those dissipsted habits which In
many cases arise from bodies over fed, but not
duly exercised. II is by the well-balsnced
development OF every power that ths truest,
and most pure, and useful manhood is attained.