Arizona citizen., 1876-10-14
THE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER l4. 1876.
MANS MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT

lOdI OhDd T. OtA NOA~A' A1t Ao'
 MANS MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT , Persons who are ambitious of becom
 ing muscular will do well to study thC
 result of an official inquiry which, aC 7 cording to the London Medical Exam finer, has lately been instituted at a : military gymnasium school in France l The inquiry, which extended over a
 period of six months, shOwed-1 . That the muscular force is increased , lon the average fifteen to seventeen per cent, and occasionally from twenty
 five 10 thirty per cent, the force hay. ling d tendency to become equal on both sides of the body. ?. That the Icapacity of the ches: is increased one. sixth at the lowest. 3. That the
 weight of the individual is increased from six to seven per cent, and Occa- siOnally from ten to fifteen per cent, while the bulk of the hOdy is dimin- lished, thus showing that the profit is Iconfined to the muscular system. The increase of the muscular force was
 generally confined to the first three months of the course. During the last moiety a serious dimlnution usual Ily occurred; and here the dynamome-
 ter gave positive indication of the
 necessity of mOderating or suspending
 the exercises. The truth is, gymnastic exercises, like all other things, require ! to be taken ill moderation, and if in Idulged in to excess do infinitely more
 harm than good. In the meantime
 there is one simple method of taking lexercise which, notwithstanding its
 advantages, is for some unaccount-
 able reason wholly neglected by vast numbers of person who are constantly
 cOmplaining of the ill effects on their lcOnStitutiOn of what they term sed-
 entary pursuits" namely, walking.
 We publish the above with pleasure.
 With equal pleasure we call atten-
 tion to the late death, at the early age of 42 years, of Dr. Winship, the great
 est exponent of modern muscular in sanity. Nct that we have pleasure in
 his death, abstractly, but that the fact
 may retard tha farther growth of a
 baneful theory. For years everything
 has been tending towards muscular de- velopment. A thing good in itself
 when used in moderation has been made a nuisance and curse through
 being carried to excess. Baseball,
 boat-racing, dumb bells, Indian clubs, the various racks, thumb-screws and Itortures of the ordinary gymnasium
 have been carried to a point that left
 to the devOtee no time for or interest
 in the balance of the good things of this life. But our pleasure in the present setbacks to muscular develop ment partakes slightly of the revenge ful. If the average and ordinarily de veloped man is never so happy as when prescribing to some physical ail-
 ment of his fellow man, the muscular development idiot would simply drop dead with unrest if he couldn't tor ment you On all occasions with mus cular advice. Say you are of small muscles, light frame and narrow chest. Say also that you have to work for a living and your work, while taking up all your time, gives you plenty of exer- else and you are in splendid health,-l haven't been sick day in your life Some muscular maniac (with the heart disease latent in his magnificent frame, very likely) comes along, spots you and nails you for a victim. With his great brawny hand he SeizeS your thin but healthy arm above the elbow, and as he congresses it into nothing d smile of plying contempt lights his face. Or he grasps you by either slightly stOoping shoulder and as the small but all sufficient bones crack un | der his lightest pressure he compassion ately advises you to buy thousand . pound dumb-bells or giant tree Indian clubs; to give up your business and devote the remainder of your life to liftlng-machines and boat-clubs, and holds up before you the brilliant pos sibility of your one day becoming the leader of baseball nine. Of course you don't follow his advice, but you go through the same thing the next and every time you meet him. Let a man once become thoroughly saturated with muscular development and he an discount Sergeant Bates as a com