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ble that some of the intervertebral cartilages, parUfc'ularly those of 

 the above named vertebrae, had been injured in the fall, and had, 

 moreover, lost their healthy tone in consequence of the four years 

 inactivity. Here the exercises were different from those recom- 

 mended in the former cases, as I could discover no outward injury, 

 and as the patient appeared to be in a good general state of health, 

 though rather thin, from the long confinement. I ordered her pa- 

 rents to procure a machine something like a sedan chair— of which 

 I gave them a plan — in which she was to ride out every day when 

 the weather would admit ; likewise to use some other gentle exer- 

 cises in doors, frictions, lotions, and a strict diet, without any kind 

 of medicine. At the end of three years she was perfectly well, to 

 the great joy of herself and her parents, who had lost all hopes of 

 her recovery. 



So much for a well-digested system of exercises, founded upon 

 the laws of Physiology. To enlarge on the precise means I adopt- 

 ed, or to detail all the cases I have successfully treated, would here 

 take up too much space, besides being tedious to many readers of 

 The Analyst. My sole aim has been to prove the incalculable im- 

 portance of gymnastics in a variety of cases beyond the art of medi- 

 cine. Gymnastics, if judiciously taught at every school, would 

 produce a material improvement in the health and strength, both 

 mental and physical, of the scholars. 



Campsall Grange, near Doncaster. 



HANNAH DYER. 



" A profound thinker has said, that the man of genius is he who retains, 

 with the perfect faculties of manhood, the undoubting faith and vivid im- 

 pressions of the child." — Nodes AmbrosiancB^ No. 39. 



Among the children of men there is not a more miserable being 

 than he whose sense of existence is bound up and contracted within 

 the present — who beholds himself as existing only in the now, with- 

 out any affinity with the past or the future ; a mind indurated by 

 custom, a heart blasted by prejudice, sterile to every generous emo- 

 tion ; with whom thought is annihilated, and sensibility transform- 

 ed into the insatiable cupidity of selfishness. His pleasures, his 

 pains, are negative ; he knows no change, he warms by no sympa- 

 thy, he never smiles nor weeps, but lives in the dead rotation of a 



