FOOTNOTES:[1]Perspiration, it may also be noticed, regulates the temperature of the skin by evaporation. Thus on a hot day after we have cooled down from exercise we feel considerably less warm than before the exercise. “Text-book of Physiology,” Schäfer, Part I., p. 669.[2]These exercises, it may be added, bear no claim to be considered wholly original; many of them, in fact, are taken direct from other systems, especially the Macdonald Smith system, which can be heartily recommended; some few we believe are new. They are offered not as final or complete exercises, but as a selection from the best which we can give at present. Suggested improvements will be welcomed.[3]“As certain as it is that a country walk through fine scenery is more invigorating than an equal number of steps up and down a hall, so certain is it that the muscular activity of a game, accompanied by the ordinary exhilaration, invigorates more than the same amount of muscular activity in the shape of gymnastics.”—Herbert Spencer, inFacts and Comments.[4]“Many men are attempting to carry the diet of youth on into middle life and age, or the diet that was quite correct for an active outdoor life into a life of sedentary office work in a town; or if they fall into neither of these errors they are generally completely ignorant with regard to the relative value and importance of foods, so that they either starve themselves on vegetables or herbs containing little or no albumen, or, on the other hand, overfeed themselves....”—Dr. Alexander Haig.[5]For the question of milk-proteid in general, seeText-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 135. For Plasmon, Hovis, and other simple foods, seeMuscle, Brain and Diet(Sonnenschein & Co.).[6]Though this really belongs to the Pulse family.[7]On the part played by saliva in digestion generally seeText-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 342, &c.[8]On the excitation of the gastric juices by suggestion only, see Schäfer,Text-book of Physiology, Vol. I., page 349.[9]“The process of training that has to be undergone by athletes nowadays is reduced to hard-and-fast rules. That these rules are not so good or scientific as could be wished is a matter for regret. The work of training is left to ‘trainers,’ and they are men who, learning from their predecessors whatever facts were known to them, build up a code of rules framed largely on imperfect experience, and added on to by what they themselves have believed to be useful. Medical men of reliable knowledge and sound professional attainments have seldom lent themselves to consider seriously the subject of training, and so place the subject on a sure scientific footing.... Many a man breaks down in training from being made the subject of some imperfect or unsuitablerégime.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”[10]“To-day we take baths as a matter of course. Apart from the pleasure of washing and of having washed, we know that soft warm water can remove ‘the dried-up epidermis or scarf-skin, the deposit of sweaty and oily matter, to say nothing of the dirt and impurities derived from the air and the particles rubbed off from our clothing.’ But ‘we realise with difficulty that the bath was but rarely met with in houses built even forty years ago. Bathing in those days, and therefore, of course, swimming, formed no portion of the school curriculum, the gradual introduction of first one, and then the other, being among the salutary results of recent educational development.’”—Dr. Malcolm Morris, in “The Book of Health.”[11]An open-air treatment can now be had at “Broadlands,” Medstead (Hampshire).[12]“Many think with Herbert Spencer [who, however, holds that ‘imperfections of nature may be diminished by wise management’] that education is useless or almost powerless; that human evolution is ruled by heredity.... This modern conception, which accords to heredity a power at least equal to that ascribed by ancient poets to Fate, is assuredly excessive.... Education may supervene efficaciously; it succeeds in giving birth toartificial instinctscapable of balancing the hereditary instincts, and even of suppressing them; in short, of substituting for innate ancestral habit an acquired individual habit.”—Professors Proust and Ballet.[13]“In the earliest times of the human race ... to prompt people to take exercise meant only to induce them to do their daily work. In later times, however, and especially in the world of to-day as we know it, the multiplication of industries has placed many classes in such a position that exercise is something independent of, and has to be added on to, their daily employment.... The clerk at his desk and the merchant at his counter; the tailor in his crooked position and the milliner at her seam; the printer setting up type from morning till night; the workers, or rather watchers, at manufactories ... have one and all forgotten that their lower extremities are meant to carry them about.... Every departure (from the physically active life) may be an intellectual advance, but a muscular retrocession—a social gain, but a physical decline. Such being the case, it is evident that a great change either in the physique, or in the means of obtaining exercise so as to maintain that physique, must have taken place; and when we come to look at it we shall find thatbut few of the employments of the present day carry with them a sufficiency of exercise.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”[14]In America the Y.M.C.A. Clubs are, we believe, almost invariably athletic, if not primarily, at least essentially.[15]“There is method in walking, method in running, method in raising a burthen with as little effort as possible. The [correct] practice of an exercise leads then to a diminution of muscular expenditure, to an economy of work, whence results an apparent increase of the strength of man who does the work.”—Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Exercise.”[16]“After a certain period of study difficult exercises have been learned, and may then become automatic. Their effects will then be very different. Is it not quite a different thing toamuseoneself with dancing fromoccupyingoneself with learning dancing? Dancing, riding, rowing, even running, when they have long been practised, need no more [conscious] brain work than walking, which is above all an automatic exercise.... It actually needs an effort of will to oppose an action which has become unconscious and to change an acquired pace.... We see at the first glance the great hygienic superiority [as increasing the oxygen in the system, removing waste products, relieving the brain fatigued by intellectual work, &c.] of exercises which can be performed automatically, with economy of nervous energy, complete [?] repose of the brain, absolute [?] inaction of the psychical faculties. The work of the human system is then performed by the coarser parts of the machine, and fatigue is first felt by the subordinate agents of movement.“But for certain bodily exercises the period of apprenticeship is indefinitely prolonged, and the movements need an increasing guidance on the part of the nerve-centres and the conscious faculties, because these movements cannot be constantly identical, and unforeseen emergencies occur. Fencing can never become an automatic exercise, notwithstanding the tendency exhibited by certain parries and thrusts to become habitual actions and to be performed instinctively; the movement cannot always be performed in the same manner and follow always the same order, for they are subordinated to those of the opponent.” Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Bodily Exercise.”[17]Of the value of exercise as a cure, the French nerve-specialists, Professors Proust and Ballet,[*] speak most emphatically. What they say about neurasthenics will apply in general to those who feel disinclined to move:—“There is in truth no case in which muscular exercise should not figure under one shape or another.... There is a whole group of patients to whom it would seem at the first glance that all muscular work should be forbidden. Complete muscular inaction, however, would be as injurious to them as exaggerated work, and for them more than for all others the rule of progressive increase of work, of slow and methodical training, must be rigorously obeyed. They are perpetually on the verge of fatigue; their reserve of motor nerve-energy is, so to speak,nil, and the slightestvoluntarymovement is enough to exhaust them. Hence the only muscular work that can be prescribed to them, at first at least, is that effected bypassivemovements andmassage, by which a whole series of muscular, tendinous, and cutaneous stimuli are transmitted by the sensory nerves to the cells of the centres ... these stimuli gently arouse the motor centres, and even the mental image of the movement aids in the same result, that is, in preserving the functional activity of the centres without tiring the patient. Besides, passive exercise and massage promote the peripheral circulation.”Dr. Weir Mitchell includes these, with faradic electricity, all three to be increased gradually, in his famous treatment for nervousness.[*] “The Treatment of Neurasthenia.” (Published by Henry Kimpton.)[18]“The need for exercise is one of the numerous sensations which lead human beings to perform actions necessary for the preservation of life or health. The need for repose is called fatigue; the need for exercise has not received a special name, but deserves one quite as much as hunger, thirst, &c. Under the influence of deficient exercise, certain materials which should be used up each day by work, accumulate in the human machine, the wheels of which they encumber, and the working of which they clog.... It is necessary, for the perfect balances of nutrition, that the reserve materials should be used up as fast as they are formed.” Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Bodily Exercise.”[19]“The fatigue which is due to dearth of albumens (proteid) in the blood is always absent so long as sufficient food is taken and digested; in the condition of dyspepsia mentioned in the previous chapter it was not digested.... If a man who has had a sufficient supply of albumens put in, and who has a good digestion, yet falls out in the early stage of a contest, long before those albumens can be exhausted, we must conclude that his fatigue is due to uric acid in the blood.” Dr. Alexander Haig.[20]“Similarly excessive exercise increases the amount of uric acid in the body.”—Text-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 595.[21]Uric Acid(Dr. A. Haig).
FOOTNOTES:
[1]Perspiration, it may also be noticed, regulates the temperature of the skin by evaporation. Thus on a hot day after we have cooled down from exercise we feel considerably less warm than before the exercise. “Text-book of Physiology,” Schäfer, Part I., p. 669.
[1]Perspiration, it may also be noticed, regulates the temperature of the skin by evaporation. Thus on a hot day after we have cooled down from exercise we feel considerably less warm than before the exercise. “Text-book of Physiology,” Schäfer, Part I., p. 669.
[2]These exercises, it may be added, bear no claim to be considered wholly original; many of them, in fact, are taken direct from other systems, especially the Macdonald Smith system, which can be heartily recommended; some few we believe are new. They are offered not as final or complete exercises, but as a selection from the best which we can give at present. Suggested improvements will be welcomed.
[2]These exercises, it may be added, bear no claim to be considered wholly original; many of them, in fact, are taken direct from other systems, especially the Macdonald Smith system, which can be heartily recommended; some few we believe are new. They are offered not as final or complete exercises, but as a selection from the best which we can give at present. Suggested improvements will be welcomed.
[3]“As certain as it is that a country walk through fine scenery is more invigorating than an equal number of steps up and down a hall, so certain is it that the muscular activity of a game, accompanied by the ordinary exhilaration, invigorates more than the same amount of muscular activity in the shape of gymnastics.”—Herbert Spencer, inFacts and Comments.
[3]“As certain as it is that a country walk through fine scenery is more invigorating than an equal number of steps up and down a hall, so certain is it that the muscular activity of a game, accompanied by the ordinary exhilaration, invigorates more than the same amount of muscular activity in the shape of gymnastics.”—Herbert Spencer, inFacts and Comments.
[4]“Many men are attempting to carry the diet of youth on into middle life and age, or the diet that was quite correct for an active outdoor life into a life of sedentary office work in a town; or if they fall into neither of these errors they are generally completely ignorant with regard to the relative value and importance of foods, so that they either starve themselves on vegetables or herbs containing little or no albumen, or, on the other hand, overfeed themselves....”—Dr. Alexander Haig.
[4]“Many men are attempting to carry the diet of youth on into middle life and age, or the diet that was quite correct for an active outdoor life into a life of sedentary office work in a town; or if they fall into neither of these errors they are generally completely ignorant with regard to the relative value and importance of foods, so that they either starve themselves on vegetables or herbs containing little or no albumen, or, on the other hand, overfeed themselves....”—Dr. Alexander Haig.
[5]For the question of milk-proteid in general, seeText-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 135. For Plasmon, Hovis, and other simple foods, seeMuscle, Brain and Diet(Sonnenschein & Co.).
[5]For the question of milk-proteid in general, seeText-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 135. For Plasmon, Hovis, and other simple foods, seeMuscle, Brain and Diet(Sonnenschein & Co.).
[6]Though this really belongs to the Pulse family.
[6]Though this really belongs to the Pulse family.
[7]On the part played by saliva in digestion generally seeText-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 342, &c.
[7]On the part played by saliva in digestion generally seeText-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 342, &c.
[8]On the excitation of the gastric juices by suggestion only, see Schäfer,Text-book of Physiology, Vol. I., page 349.
[8]On the excitation of the gastric juices by suggestion only, see Schäfer,Text-book of Physiology, Vol. I., page 349.
[9]“The process of training that has to be undergone by athletes nowadays is reduced to hard-and-fast rules. That these rules are not so good or scientific as could be wished is a matter for regret. The work of training is left to ‘trainers,’ and they are men who, learning from their predecessors whatever facts were known to them, build up a code of rules framed largely on imperfect experience, and added on to by what they themselves have believed to be useful. Medical men of reliable knowledge and sound professional attainments have seldom lent themselves to consider seriously the subject of training, and so place the subject on a sure scientific footing.... Many a man breaks down in training from being made the subject of some imperfect or unsuitablerégime.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”
[9]“The process of training that has to be undergone by athletes nowadays is reduced to hard-and-fast rules. That these rules are not so good or scientific as could be wished is a matter for regret. The work of training is left to ‘trainers,’ and they are men who, learning from their predecessors whatever facts were known to them, build up a code of rules framed largely on imperfect experience, and added on to by what they themselves have believed to be useful. Medical men of reliable knowledge and sound professional attainments have seldom lent themselves to consider seriously the subject of training, and so place the subject on a sure scientific footing.... Many a man breaks down in training from being made the subject of some imperfect or unsuitablerégime.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”
[10]“To-day we take baths as a matter of course. Apart from the pleasure of washing and of having washed, we know that soft warm water can remove ‘the dried-up epidermis or scarf-skin, the deposit of sweaty and oily matter, to say nothing of the dirt and impurities derived from the air and the particles rubbed off from our clothing.’ But ‘we realise with difficulty that the bath was but rarely met with in houses built even forty years ago. Bathing in those days, and therefore, of course, swimming, formed no portion of the school curriculum, the gradual introduction of first one, and then the other, being among the salutary results of recent educational development.’”—Dr. Malcolm Morris, in “The Book of Health.”
[10]“To-day we take baths as a matter of course. Apart from the pleasure of washing and of having washed, we know that soft warm water can remove ‘the dried-up epidermis or scarf-skin, the deposit of sweaty and oily matter, to say nothing of the dirt and impurities derived from the air and the particles rubbed off from our clothing.’ But ‘we realise with difficulty that the bath was but rarely met with in houses built even forty years ago. Bathing in those days, and therefore, of course, swimming, formed no portion of the school curriculum, the gradual introduction of first one, and then the other, being among the salutary results of recent educational development.’”—Dr. Malcolm Morris, in “The Book of Health.”
[11]An open-air treatment can now be had at “Broadlands,” Medstead (Hampshire).
[11]An open-air treatment can now be had at “Broadlands,” Medstead (Hampshire).
[12]“Many think with Herbert Spencer [who, however, holds that ‘imperfections of nature may be diminished by wise management’] that education is useless or almost powerless; that human evolution is ruled by heredity.... This modern conception, which accords to heredity a power at least equal to that ascribed by ancient poets to Fate, is assuredly excessive.... Education may supervene efficaciously; it succeeds in giving birth toartificial instinctscapable of balancing the hereditary instincts, and even of suppressing them; in short, of substituting for innate ancestral habit an acquired individual habit.”—Professors Proust and Ballet.
[12]“Many think with Herbert Spencer [who, however, holds that ‘imperfections of nature may be diminished by wise management’] that education is useless or almost powerless; that human evolution is ruled by heredity.... This modern conception, which accords to heredity a power at least equal to that ascribed by ancient poets to Fate, is assuredly excessive.... Education may supervene efficaciously; it succeeds in giving birth toartificial instinctscapable of balancing the hereditary instincts, and even of suppressing them; in short, of substituting for innate ancestral habit an acquired individual habit.”—Professors Proust and Ballet.
[13]“In the earliest times of the human race ... to prompt people to take exercise meant only to induce them to do their daily work. In later times, however, and especially in the world of to-day as we know it, the multiplication of industries has placed many classes in such a position that exercise is something independent of, and has to be added on to, their daily employment.... The clerk at his desk and the merchant at his counter; the tailor in his crooked position and the milliner at her seam; the printer setting up type from morning till night; the workers, or rather watchers, at manufactories ... have one and all forgotten that their lower extremities are meant to carry them about.... Every departure (from the physically active life) may be an intellectual advance, but a muscular retrocession—a social gain, but a physical decline. Such being the case, it is evident that a great change either in the physique, or in the means of obtaining exercise so as to maintain that physique, must have taken place; and when we come to look at it we shall find thatbut few of the employments of the present day carry with them a sufficiency of exercise.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”
[13]“In the earliest times of the human race ... to prompt people to take exercise meant only to induce them to do their daily work. In later times, however, and especially in the world of to-day as we know it, the multiplication of industries has placed many classes in such a position that exercise is something independent of, and has to be added on to, their daily employment.... The clerk at his desk and the merchant at his counter; the tailor in his crooked position and the milliner at her seam; the printer setting up type from morning till night; the workers, or rather watchers, at manufactories ... have one and all forgotten that their lower extremities are meant to carry them about.... Every departure (from the physically active life) may be an intellectual advance, but a muscular retrocession—a social gain, but a physical decline. Such being the case, it is evident that a great change either in the physique, or in the means of obtaining exercise so as to maintain that physique, must have taken place; and when we come to look at it we shall find thatbut few of the employments of the present day carry with them a sufficiency of exercise.”—Dr. James Cantlie, in “The Book of Health.”
[14]In America the Y.M.C.A. Clubs are, we believe, almost invariably athletic, if not primarily, at least essentially.
[14]In America the Y.M.C.A. Clubs are, we believe, almost invariably athletic, if not primarily, at least essentially.
[15]“There is method in walking, method in running, method in raising a burthen with as little effort as possible. The [correct] practice of an exercise leads then to a diminution of muscular expenditure, to an economy of work, whence results an apparent increase of the strength of man who does the work.”—Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Exercise.”
[15]“There is method in walking, method in running, method in raising a burthen with as little effort as possible. The [correct] practice of an exercise leads then to a diminution of muscular expenditure, to an economy of work, whence results an apparent increase of the strength of man who does the work.”—Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Exercise.”
[16]“After a certain period of study difficult exercises have been learned, and may then become automatic. Their effects will then be very different. Is it not quite a different thing toamuseoneself with dancing fromoccupyingoneself with learning dancing? Dancing, riding, rowing, even running, when they have long been practised, need no more [conscious] brain work than walking, which is above all an automatic exercise.... It actually needs an effort of will to oppose an action which has become unconscious and to change an acquired pace.... We see at the first glance the great hygienic superiority [as increasing the oxygen in the system, removing waste products, relieving the brain fatigued by intellectual work, &c.] of exercises which can be performed automatically, with economy of nervous energy, complete [?] repose of the brain, absolute [?] inaction of the psychical faculties. The work of the human system is then performed by the coarser parts of the machine, and fatigue is first felt by the subordinate agents of movement.“But for certain bodily exercises the period of apprenticeship is indefinitely prolonged, and the movements need an increasing guidance on the part of the nerve-centres and the conscious faculties, because these movements cannot be constantly identical, and unforeseen emergencies occur. Fencing can never become an automatic exercise, notwithstanding the tendency exhibited by certain parries and thrusts to become habitual actions and to be performed instinctively; the movement cannot always be performed in the same manner and follow always the same order, for they are subordinated to those of the opponent.” Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Bodily Exercise.”
[16]“After a certain period of study difficult exercises have been learned, and may then become automatic. Their effects will then be very different. Is it not quite a different thing toamuseoneself with dancing fromoccupyingoneself with learning dancing? Dancing, riding, rowing, even running, when they have long been practised, need no more [conscious] brain work than walking, which is above all an automatic exercise.... It actually needs an effort of will to oppose an action which has become unconscious and to change an acquired pace.... We see at the first glance the great hygienic superiority [as increasing the oxygen in the system, removing waste products, relieving the brain fatigued by intellectual work, &c.] of exercises which can be performed automatically, with economy of nervous energy, complete [?] repose of the brain, absolute [?] inaction of the psychical faculties. The work of the human system is then performed by the coarser parts of the machine, and fatigue is first felt by the subordinate agents of movement.
“But for certain bodily exercises the period of apprenticeship is indefinitely prolonged, and the movements need an increasing guidance on the part of the nerve-centres and the conscious faculties, because these movements cannot be constantly identical, and unforeseen emergencies occur. Fencing can never become an automatic exercise, notwithstanding the tendency exhibited by certain parries and thrusts to become habitual actions and to be performed instinctively; the movement cannot always be performed in the same manner and follow always the same order, for they are subordinated to those of the opponent.” Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Bodily Exercise.”
[17]Of the value of exercise as a cure, the French nerve-specialists, Professors Proust and Ballet,[*] speak most emphatically. What they say about neurasthenics will apply in general to those who feel disinclined to move:—“There is in truth no case in which muscular exercise should not figure under one shape or another.... There is a whole group of patients to whom it would seem at the first glance that all muscular work should be forbidden. Complete muscular inaction, however, would be as injurious to them as exaggerated work, and for them more than for all others the rule of progressive increase of work, of slow and methodical training, must be rigorously obeyed. They are perpetually on the verge of fatigue; their reserve of motor nerve-energy is, so to speak,nil, and the slightestvoluntarymovement is enough to exhaust them. Hence the only muscular work that can be prescribed to them, at first at least, is that effected bypassivemovements andmassage, by which a whole series of muscular, tendinous, and cutaneous stimuli are transmitted by the sensory nerves to the cells of the centres ... these stimuli gently arouse the motor centres, and even the mental image of the movement aids in the same result, that is, in preserving the functional activity of the centres without tiring the patient. Besides, passive exercise and massage promote the peripheral circulation.”Dr. Weir Mitchell includes these, with faradic electricity, all three to be increased gradually, in his famous treatment for nervousness.[*] “The Treatment of Neurasthenia.” (Published by Henry Kimpton.)
[17]Of the value of exercise as a cure, the French nerve-specialists, Professors Proust and Ballet,[*] speak most emphatically. What they say about neurasthenics will apply in general to those who feel disinclined to move:—
“There is in truth no case in which muscular exercise should not figure under one shape or another.... There is a whole group of patients to whom it would seem at the first glance that all muscular work should be forbidden. Complete muscular inaction, however, would be as injurious to them as exaggerated work, and for them more than for all others the rule of progressive increase of work, of slow and methodical training, must be rigorously obeyed. They are perpetually on the verge of fatigue; their reserve of motor nerve-energy is, so to speak,nil, and the slightestvoluntarymovement is enough to exhaust them. Hence the only muscular work that can be prescribed to them, at first at least, is that effected bypassivemovements andmassage, by which a whole series of muscular, tendinous, and cutaneous stimuli are transmitted by the sensory nerves to the cells of the centres ... these stimuli gently arouse the motor centres, and even the mental image of the movement aids in the same result, that is, in preserving the functional activity of the centres without tiring the patient. Besides, passive exercise and massage promote the peripheral circulation.”Dr. Weir Mitchell includes these, with faradic electricity, all three to be increased gradually, in his famous treatment for nervousness.
“There is in truth no case in which muscular exercise should not figure under one shape or another.... There is a whole group of patients to whom it would seem at the first glance that all muscular work should be forbidden. Complete muscular inaction, however, would be as injurious to them as exaggerated work, and for them more than for all others the rule of progressive increase of work, of slow and methodical training, must be rigorously obeyed. They are perpetually on the verge of fatigue; their reserve of motor nerve-energy is, so to speak,nil, and the slightestvoluntarymovement is enough to exhaust them. Hence the only muscular work that can be prescribed to them, at first at least, is that effected bypassivemovements andmassage, by which a whole series of muscular, tendinous, and cutaneous stimuli are transmitted by the sensory nerves to the cells of the centres ... these stimuli gently arouse the motor centres, and even the mental image of the movement aids in the same result, that is, in preserving the functional activity of the centres without tiring the patient. Besides, passive exercise and massage promote the peripheral circulation.”
Dr. Weir Mitchell includes these, with faradic electricity, all three to be increased gradually, in his famous treatment for nervousness.
[*] “The Treatment of Neurasthenia.” (Published by Henry Kimpton.)
[18]“The need for exercise is one of the numerous sensations which lead human beings to perform actions necessary for the preservation of life or health. The need for repose is called fatigue; the need for exercise has not received a special name, but deserves one quite as much as hunger, thirst, &c. Under the influence of deficient exercise, certain materials which should be used up each day by work, accumulate in the human machine, the wheels of which they encumber, and the working of which they clog.... It is necessary, for the perfect balances of nutrition, that the reserve materials should be used up as fast as they are formed.” Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Bodily Exercise.”
[18]“The need for exercise is one of the numerous sensations which lead human beings to perform actions necessary for the preservation of life or health. The need for repose is called fatigue; the need for exercise has not received a special name, but deserves one quite as much as hunger, thirst, &c. Under the influence of deficient exercise, certain materials which should be used up each day by work, accumulate in the human machine, the wheels of which they encumber, and the working of which they clog.... It is necessary, for the perfect balances of nutrition, that the reserve materials should be used up as fast as they are formed.” Dr. Fernand Lagrange, in “The Physiology of Bodily Exercise.”
[19]“The fatigue which is due to dearth of albumens (proteid) in the blood is always absent so long as sufficient food is taken and digested; in the condition of dyspepsia mentioned in the previous chapter it was not digested.... If a man who has had a sufficient supply of albumens put in, and who has a good digestion, yet falls out in the early stage of a contest, long before those albumens can be exhausted, we must conclude that his fatigue is due to uric acid in the blood.” Dr. Alexander Haig.
[19]“The fatigue which is due to dearth of albumens (proteid) in the blood is always absent so long as sufficient food is taken and digested; in the condition of dyspepsia mentioned in the previous chapter it was not digested.... If a man who has had a sufficient supply of albumens put in, and who has a good digestion, yet falls out in the early stage of a contest, long before those albumens can be exhausted, we must conclude that his fatigue is due to uric acid in the blood.” Dr. Alexander Haig.
[20]“Similarly excessive exercise increases the amount of uric acid in the body.”—Text-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 595.
[20]“Similarly excessive exercise increases the amount of uric acid in the body.”—Text-book of Physiology(Schäfer), Vol. I., page 595.
[21]Uric Acid(Dr. A. Haig).
[21]Uric Acid(Dr. A. Haig).