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Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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newspapers, and havethorough authentic certificatesas to the lifts, also a declarationfrom the Inspector of Weightsand Measures, Adelaide, Aus-tralia, with regard to the scalesused for weighing the bells. I succeeded in lifting the2 20-pound bell on the secondatt< mpt, and with a fairarrount of ease; the snatch13 ^-pound gave me a littlerrore trouble, being forced to1? take three trials at it beforeI got it. So far my best one-hand bent-press-up from theshoulder is 175 pounds, and 165all the way one hand. I havebeen medically examined byseveral of our best doctors hereand declared first class. Ihave been practicing gymnas-tics for about 10 years, butonly recently took up weight-lifting; in fact it is only duringthe last few months that I havemade such rapid progress. Ihave been a reader of your magazine fora good many years now, and no doubtyou will remember publishing a hand-to-hand balance photo of myself and afriend in Beauty and Health a shorttime ago. I am not a vegetarian but
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Splendid Development of Mr* Shorthoses Back next door to it, eating very little meat.Thanking you in anticipation, andwishing you every success in your grandwork. Reg. G. Shorthose.t 1 Unity Chambers, Currie St., Adelaide. A Defense of the Doctors To the Editor: I am one of your subscribers, and havenoticed an article on Appendicitis Frauds inthe May issue of Physical Culture. I begto state that there are many grave errors inthe article which convey to the minds of thelaxity that there is no such a disease as ap-pendicitis, and further that any surgeon whooperates upon such a patient is a fraud. Allof this is emphatically wrong, and I canprove to you that there is such a disease asappendicitis, which originates in the appendixitself, and if permitted.to go on, forms anabscess in the lumen of the appendix, and inthe majority of cases, if left alone will burstthe wall of the over-distended appendix, thussending its deadly poisonous contents into the general peritoneal cavity and causing

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