Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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f thought, or will,may readily operate through. And suchoperation is mind, that and nothingmore. For study of electricity, in its practicalaspects, in its explanation of all chemicalaction, in its operation as the cause ofcombustion in all our fires and our com-mon lights, and in electrical causationof the vital state and vital energy,through the electrical function of theoxygen of respiration, there is a field ofinterest and of significance far beyond allother ever opened to the human mind.It is a field hardly entered upon by cur-rent instruction and yet wide open tostudy through the work of Faraday,Helmholtz, Hertz, Lodge and other no-table authorities. And hardly second to this, and in someaspects still more important, is that ofthe natural history of creation, the storyof the universe and of nature, the bearingof which upon religious problems is themost significant advance knowledge hasever made, or ever can make. Edward C.Towne,The Lake George Institute of Research, Oxford, Mass.
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- - 13±L-A^^^^^^ *~ have turned the entire A Medical Anarchist By Sidney Cummings A PHYSICIAN WHO IS A THORN IN THE SIDEOF THE ENTIRE MEDICAL PROFESSION WE have published various articlesin recent issues of this maga-zine, from the pen of Dr. M.J. Rodermund, of Milwaukee.Dr. Rodermund is very plain spoken.He has some very strong convictions.He believes that in many cases theentire medical profession is followingfallacious theories. He is what I wouldterm a medical anarchist. He refusesto recognize the laws that the medicalprofession has laid down for the guidanceof its members. He has experimentedon his own account. I do not think heis from Missouri, but he has that char-acteristic which requires every one toshow him. You cannot compel himto accept any theory unless you canprove it to him in black-and-white.For instance, he says the germ theoryis all bosh, that it is a humbug fromstart to finish, and by the aid of elaborateand costly experiments he has proventhat germs do not cause d

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