Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-06
Health and Strength--.TO be Weak is
60 be Miserable.

Mr.. d. p Butler, of Boston, believes that strength
is health and that the way to become ,gel is by be-
coming strong. Hon. to become strong, then, is Mr.
Buffers second question. His answer-obtained
after much thought, observation and experiences
"Raise heavy weights" Here, at once, he is at va
rance with DR.. Die Lewis, whose name was in sll
mouths, and whose wooden dumb-bels were in all
hands, FIVE years ago. But thus contrsdicting DR..
Lewis, he agrees with DR.. Windship, who having,
puny, thread-paper freshman at Harvard, been
much put upon and abused by a sophomore that
walked the same classic groves of Aeademus upon
his muscle determined that he would cultivate
Drawn simultaneously with the humanities and
thereby become able to administer thrasbing to
his sophomorical ablser. Therefore, whilst not ne
gecting Heroditus, Horstus and Euclidus lie zeal
ously emulated the course of that Milo, who began
by lifting the calf and ended by walking of with
the grown-up bull on his entoughened shoulders
and long before his old enemy was ready to receive
his Bachelors degree, young Wndship was easily
able to pick him up and toss him over the garden
palings amongst the cabbages.
Well, his lifting weights Mr.. Butler has system
lied into science and reduced to well-aranged,
progressive art. He puts the learner Tor the pa
tient) at three different exercises the pulleys lift
ing and dumb bells-and in the order each day, in
which we have here named them. A few tugs at
the pulley timber the muscles and start a lvelier
Aow of blood. Then light weight is lifted-so light
as TO be lifted with the utmost ease; next one that
is heavier; and after four or FIVE lifts each trife
sitter than those before it, the last weight is laid
upon the pile, and the utmost muscular effort that
lies within the gymnasts power is put forth. This
raised, he finishes off with few simple movements
of the dumb bells. All this has occupied fifteen CT
eighteen minutes including breathing spells, and
the days practice is over. Mr.. Butler claims that
this kind and this amount of exercise are abundant
ly sufficient, if taken some three or four times q
week. to build up strength and health. He asserts
that such exertions are surprisingly curatve-thai
the lifting in his method does actually get at aud
ercise every muscular fiber throughout the mantle
bers of the muscular coats of the ntestnes as really
as the muscles of the arms the legs and the back
And precisely here is the difference between tn
Butlerian gymnastics and all other gymDastics,-
this very getting at and exercising the muscular
fbers of the internal organs. Other methods bring
into play merely those muscles that form what we
commonly group together under the name Of the
muscular system, and they make claim to any
thing more. They go no further than to say that
the general strengthening and tOnng up of the great
muscular apparatus gradually makes itself felt in
every organ of the whole man; and undoubtedly
this assertion is TO some extent true But Mr.. But
Ter insists that the very first days exercise
reaches and acts upon tho heart, the stomach, the
bowels and the liver, and sets a-going in each Of
them a curative process. We sincerely hope that
this is true for if true practically revolutonizes
the life of civilized man, far relates to health
disease and the practice of medicine
Those who want TO know more about this mat
ter can send to d. p Butler, 10 Temple Place, Bos-
ton, or to Leavitt s. james, $50 Broadway, New
York. for a copy of Mr. Buffers book, "Tbe Lifting
Cure" Viritors to either city will find this system
of exercises in actual operation at the places just
specified