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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ly do they believe in the value fast posing their prestige as a one get away as nearly as possible means of remedying bodily ailmentsGo back to Nature, is heard every-where. Men and women are beginningto think. They are beginning torealize that a sick body cannot be from the excitement and devitalizinghabits so closely connected with civiliza^tion. The use of superfluous clothingthey consider distinctly harmful. Whenyou take up the extreme reforms that made uell by adrmnistermg poisons many advocates of the Nature , Poisons and the recommend you are supposed to practi- cally discard cloth- healthy tissueof the human bodydo not combine.They are foreignto each other. With naturalmethods condi-tions are other-wise. The Naturecure, for instance,recognizes the won-derful power ofthe sun in buildingincreased physicalvigor. All plantlife thrives underthe influence ofthe suns light andheat, and theadvocates of na-tural methodsmaintain that thehuman body cansecure similar ad-vantageous results
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Attendant Applying Clay to Back Prevfotto Burial ing. They say thatit smothers the skinand clogs up thepores. The skin, sothey claim, shouldbe allowed tobreathe just as dothe lungs. Theskin is continuallythrowing off im-purities — internaldirt, you mightcall it—and if onewears clothes, thisdirt adheres tothe skin and in-terferes with thefree activity ofthe pores. To bethoroughly clean,therefore, they maintain that oneshould not wearclothing. 265 266 PHYSICAL CULTURE

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