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which could hardly be explained to the mass of 

 men. 



In all methods commencing with the posterior lines^ 

 it is to he particularly remembered that no stiffening 

 of the lines from the chest to the hip joints he allowed 

 in the 'Reactionary'' working of the lower rihs^ he- 

 cause this traction passes backward only gradually, 

 viz : first, by a change of gravity taking effect on 

 the front part of the feet ; second, by the adjust- 

 ment in the muscles joining the lower end of the 

 sternum and the front of the pelvis ; third, by the 

 drawing of the posterior points of appUcation from 

 ihe front of the hip joints (§ 162, sixth). 



§ 186. By a movement analogous to that just 

 given, but carried out on a single line, viz. : by fill- 

 ing the left upper lung lobe through the mouth, 

 and emptying the left lower lung lobe through the 

 left nostril, it wHl, we think, become apparent that 

 Mons. Morquin's method is aforrrvation of the alter- 

 nate lines, and not a forcing of the old ones. 



Let the left* upper lobe be filled from the mouth, 

 the air being carried to its upper part, and then the 

 left upper part of the chest being strained upward 



* It need scarcely be repeated that all these exercises suppose the 

 right-handed deformity. In the contrary case the parts mentioned 

 would change. 



