120 On Scientific Physual Training 
The drawing, one-sixth the natural size, is an imaginary 
restoration, as but the lower half is before me. The 
portion marked A, forms specimen No. I, sent to you. 
£4, within ths dotted line, marks the space over which the 
blind cells, for strength, as I suppose, extend. From the 
shape of the base, as brought to me, the mass must have 
rested partly on some such excrescence of the trunk as I 
have tried to represent. The actual entrance into the tree 
in this instance was by a narrow perpendicular slit, two and 
a half inches long and three-tenths of an inch wide, the 
upper part of which may be seen in the specimen. The 
width, laterally, in the middle of the stem of the structure, 
is exactly one anda half inch. The weight of the whole, 
judging by the portion I have, may have been half a pound. 
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ON SCIENTIFIC PHYSICAL TRAINING AND 
RATIONAL GYMNASTICS. 
BY M. ROTH, ESQ., M.D. 
(Continued from page 78.) 
E come now to the point of rational gymnastics. I 
repeat there is only one good system of gymnastics, 
that which takes care of the human body. It should not be 
the object in a gymnasium to see who can climb the most, 
who can vault the best; but the object should be to pro- 
duce harmony of the different parts of the human body. 
consequently, every part should be simultaneously de- 
veloped. The figures have been modelled in order to show 
the elementary actions of the human body on which all 
other movements are based. The figures will show the 
various positions in which the elementary movements can 
be executed. The positions must be compared to the 
various keys in music, because the same movement in a 
different position produces a different effect. Figures 1, 2, 
3 show different positions of the hands and feet; 4, 
5, 6, 7, different movements of the head, as thrown for- 
wards, backwards, sideways, and turning. These flexion 
and turning movements can be combined in various ways. 
Figures 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, show the elementary move- 
ments of the arms. We use the arms in all directions, but 
