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The great cause of deformity in civilized man 

 we assume to be the preponderating exercise of one 

 set of diagonal corae counteractions, until the 

 muscles affected by them have acquired an undue 

 proportion of strength, and permanently fixed the 

 convexes which accompany their gatherings. 

 Thus, the change from one set of diagonal appuis 

 to the other no longer cames with it that complete 

 change of socket bearings, throughout the joints 

 of the body, which should take place. In fact, the 

 movements of a man under such circumstances, 

 whether walking or running, are, to a greater or 

 less extent, varying with individuals, under the 

 conditions of those of a horse in the canter, and in 

 most men these conditions are those of a canter to 

 the right, viz., on the left leg as a principal appui, 

 and with the right arm as the " leading limb." 



We now propose, first, to describe the course of 

 action in setting-up on the basis of the halting of a 

 Iwrse from the trot. 



We shall then aUude to the movement from 

 other conditions, and shall also give some exercises 

 founded on the filling and exhausting of the lung 

 lobes, and the movements which the extending in- 

 fluence of these brings on in the composite and 

 the bicomposite cycles. 



