The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-02-08
POPULAR MEDICINE.
BY DR.. HIRSHBERG
Intelligent Observation of Rules
of Hygiene Will De-
crease Illness.
By DIR. L. X. HIRsHBERG.


The old saw that "the devil takes
the hindmost" contains a hidden truth.
1t means that he whose muscles are
SO flabby and lax that he cannot
keep up with the procession" must
fall by the wayside". of incompe-
tency, .inefficiency or disease.
Gymnastics in adult life as well as
in the college years make the average
man stand not upon the order OF his
going" when time must be taken by
the forelock. Those who have strong,
healthy tissues, clear intellects, keen
thoughts and are earnest in purpose
are not handicapped by muscular
weakness.
Blushing, supersensitiveness, back
wardness and timidity, as well as
worries, all call for gymnasium work
and physical culture. 1t is the weak
kneed, flabby-muscled fleshless, sort
OF man who has these emotional dis
turbances, enormously dismissed
lightly as nervousness"
Physical Training Best.
Men with bullying eyes, dropping
shoulders, flat chests, sway backs,
bent spines, and other bone and mus
Gle deformities should take physical
training rather than medicine.
Rightly OF the chest with deficient
muscle development around the ribs,
breastbone and collarbones points to
the threat of tuberculosis IL gymnas-
tics are not undertaken with the view
of remedial help.
There are many who suffer con-
stipation, foul breath, caprices OF the
appetite and irregularities of sleep
and digestion. all OF which systema-
tic physical culture may be expected
to benefit.
Some Valuable Exercise.
Flat feet, fat abdomens and hips,
symptoms OF sciatica, lack OF the
power to concentrate and to remem-
Der have all been surprisingly inn
proved by correctly directed gym
nastics.
The exercise that at times aids the
victim of constipation is the follow
ing: Lie Tat on your back and stretch
and elevate the legs alternately" also
lift the arms in a similar manner and
breathe deeply.
In a seated position rotate the
trunk quickly, with hands on the
hips. Then, with the hands behind
the neck, bend the trunk sidewise.
announcer movement CODslSlS III lHc
alternate bending of the knees, first
slowly thena swiftly. Finally, the
trunk is bent forward and downward.
Meanwhile the abdomen, with its in
terror intestines, are kneaded as IL
they are dough. Do this each night
just before retiring, and it soon be-
comes unnecessary to take laNatives.
At the same time pimples, black
heads and other facial blemishes give
way before the freshened vigor and
newly coursing blood supply.
A Remarkable .Cure."
In the report of a series of helpful
exercises used by DR.. Clara Gregory
Baer, NewcOmb College, Tulane uni
Versity, New ORLEANS, she tells of
freshman. twenty-one years of age,
whose psychic nervous disturbance"
brought about by being thwarted in
ambition and by worry was wonder
fully improved by gymnastics.
This students father had failed,
after years OF successful business eX-
perience. and the financial condition
of the home WAS changed much for
the worse. When this student learn
ed that there was no possibility of her
father regaining his position in the
wish to stay at home to help the
family. and with the knowledge that
II would be best in the end for her to
return to college. The result was
that she did not know what to do and
became completely unnerved."
She asked Prof. Baer to be excused
from gymnasium work, because she
felt unfit to meet and mingIe with
others. Self-centered and introspec-
tive. the student lost weight and
could not sleep.
Special exercises were prescribed to
be practIced in the private dOrmitory
instead OF the gymnasium with the
other students. with the result that in
six months "a more complete change
would be difficult to conceive" So
hearty, vigorous and robust did this
student become that the audacious
hazers did not dare TO try any Of their
previous tricks upon her. Moreover,
she became a good mixer" instead
Of the previous selfish. blushing, timid,
super-sensitive student.
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