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Title: Exercises for ladies;
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Walker, Donald. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: London, T. Hurst
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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produces ofone of the shoulders; the immense increasewhich it causes in the waist by incessantly em-ploying and developing the large muscles of thesides, in order to secure the riders balance (andthis too in a nation where slender-waistedness isbeauty!) ; the enfeeblement and deformity whichit causes in the thighs, legs, and feet;* thecoarseness of voice, which is always caused byconversing in a loud tone with a riding com-panion; the increased exposure to weather,which is so unfavourable to the complexion;the early improper irritation and subsequent de-bility which it produces ;f the unnatural consoli-dation of the bones of the lower part of the body,ensuring a dangerous and frightful impediment tofuture functions which need not here be dwelton;—in short, its altogether masculine and un-womanly character. * See the regiments of Guards, in which I never coulddiscover an old trooper who had two legs alike! f The history of the Cossac women, who are much onhorseback, illustrates this.
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37 IN LYING IN BED. In sleeping on a feather-bed, with high pillows,the body is not only enervated, but, as we gene-rally lie on the right side, the right shoulder isagain raised, and the tendency to deviation inthat direction still further increased. The spine is also twisted, and the neck turnedawry.—(See Plate VI.) When two children sleep in one bed, theyseldom fail, unless they change sides, to contracta habit of lying always on the same side of thebody; and when this is practised every night,during several years, it can scarcely fail to pro-duce deformity. Thus, as the most frequent curvature of thespine is lateral, its causes are also lateral; andthose are egregiously mistaken who imagine thatits cause is ever perpendicular,—they fail to ob-serve that, when lateral curvature arises, even fromsome fault in a foot, it is solely because its in-fluence is laterally applied, through the obliqueneck of the thigh-bone, that it can have theslightest effect on the spinal column.—Co

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