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A Complete System of Treatment for the General Care of the Body, With Full Directions for the Development of the Muscular System. Adapted to Persons of Sedentary Habits, and Those Wishing a Higher System of Physical Development. Topics include: pulley-weight and bowing-machine exercises, health, location and duties of muscles, exercises, injuries, home gymnasiums, advice to girls, diet plans, avoiding colds ("Do not stand in the street on a cold or windy night"), etc. Modern readers may be amused by paragraphs on avoiding the "amorous passions of nature," death by "excessive joy," and the hair changing from black to gray in one night. Show more