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Title: A treatise on anatomy, physiology and hygiene : designed for colleges, academies and families
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Cutter, Calvin, 1807-1873?
Subjects: Physiology Anatomy Hygiene Anatomy Physiology Hygiene
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Mussey
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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employ-ment. In training the muscles for effective action, it is veryimportant that correct movements be adopted at the com« How is liiis shown by experiment ? 207. Upon what do the differentintonations of sound or mechanical employments depend ? YThy are thefirst efforts in educating the muscles indifferent or irregular ? 208. Whyis repetition of muscular action necessary ? Why is it important thatcorrect moremcnta be adopted in the first efforts of muscular education ? HYGIENE OF THE MUSCLES. 103 mcncemont. If this is neglected, the motions will be con-strained and improper, wlulc power and skill will be lost. I/his!radon. If a boy, while learning to mow, is allowedto swing his scythe in a stooping position, twisting his body atevery sweep of the scythe, he will never become an easy,etTicicnt mower. Proper instruction is as necessary in manyof the agricultural branches as in the varied mechanicalemployments. Fix. 52. Fi:. 53.
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Fig. 52. An nnproper, but not an unusual position, when writing. Fig. 53. A proper position, wlien writing. 209. Good penmansJiip requires properly trained muscles.To a deficient analysis of the movements of the arm, hand,and fingers, on the part of teachers and pupils in penman-ship, together with an improper position in sitting, is to be HoAV is tliis illustrated? 209. Why have so many pupils failed inacquiring good penmanship ? 104 ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND HYGIENE. ascribed the great want of success in acquiring this art. Thepen should be held loosely, and when the proper position issittained, the scholar should make an effort to imitate somedefinite copy as nearly as possible. The .movements of thefingers, hand, and arm, necessary to accomplish this, shouldbe made with ease and rapidity, striving, at each effort, toimitate the copy more nearly. 210. When the arm, hand, and fingers are rigid, the largemuscles, that bend and extend these parts, are called into toomtense action. This

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