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Excerpt from Physical Training: A Full Report of the Papers and Discussions of the Conference Held in Boston in November, 1899
We Open this morning a Conference devoted to the con sideration of physical exercises for the development of the body. Physical training, I take it, is a part of the subject of hygiene in its largest compass, which includes dietary and digestive functions, and matters of rest and repose as well as matters of muscular training. We wish to discuss physical training in view of hygiene, and to avoid, if we can, all narrow interpretation of our subject. The advantage of such a Con ference as this is that extremes come together; and, by com parison of views, each one learns to supplement his own deficiencies. We shall all be delighted to find new phases of the subject. Hygiene wishes to make the most of the body for human purposes, not for animal purposes, but for ltuman purposes. Hygiene includes several departments, of which physical training is one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
