Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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should be out of doors, and his diversions of a char-acter to free the mind from calculation, and give healthy exerciseto the enervatel muscular system. The farmer may advantageouslyshorten his days of toil, and spend some hours in every twenty-fourin visiting his neighbors, and in the perusal of books and newspa-pers. The wealthy idler will find happiness and health in industryof some kind, evei if it be not remunerative. For the accountant,professional man, cr for any one closely engaged in sedentary pur-11 24:2 PREVENTION OF DISEASE. suits, there is probably no exercise so beneficial as horseback riding.Much walking exhausts the magnetic forces of the system, if they aredeficient, but in riding a horse, the animal docs the work, and therider takes the exercise, and not only does the stomach, liver, anaother internal organs get wholesomely jostled, but every muscle ofvhe arms and limbs partakes of the invigorating shaking. Then, Fig. 69. • \ \\\\\VXi>\ ■/// :>//■///<
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MAGNETIC EXERCISE. too, the horse is a regular battery for the generatior of animal elec-tricity. The vapors from his nostrils, and the stean from his body,are loaded with magnetic life. The busy brain-wrker, seated uponthe saddle, is enveloped in an atmosphere of vital magnetism, whichhis attenuated body drinks in as the parched earft takes in the even- MENTAL AND PHYSICAL RECREATION. 243 ing shower. Dr. Frank Hamilton grew enthusiastic in a lecture,free from exaggeration, when he said:— My friend, a well-known and very distinguished doctor of divin-ity, believes that I also ride a hobby, since I will prescribe no medi-cine for him but a horse; and I frankly confess that he has goodreason for his belief. It is part of the speakers creed that all reli-gions congregations should build a barn, and buy a horse with a sad-dle and bridle; all which should be endowed so as to cover everyfuture necessary expense; and that as soon as the horse is properlyinstalled, and not before, they may

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