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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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knowledge indicate an insightinto the problems discussed so unsualthat I have concluded to publish theletters in full. The theories advanced do not agreein every detail with those I have alreadypresented, but in many respects theystrengthen and make more clear myown ideas. The letters follow here-with: POWER COMES FROM THE NERVES;NOT THE MUSCLE To the Editor: I would say that you are quite rightwhen you say that the seeming power our American doctors McClellan, Keen,etc., and have witnessed experimentson the subject of life and nerve force.Nerve force is still as great a mysteryand secret, as life itself, or gravitation,space and time, for the lower animalspartake of that same force as man does.Dr. Parkhill, the Western surgeon,asked me once in the operating-room,after a fine dissection of a brain: Canyou see what has departed from thisman; he appears to be exactly the samenow as when he was alive? No electricforce was of any use, since nerve forcewas gone. Nerve force, will only pass
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When forward as far as you can go, then posh body backward vigorously as far as possible,using strength of neck alone. For reaching spinal column and muscles, back, neck and betweenthe shoulders. of muscular force lies not in the musclesthemselves but in the nervous supplywhich is communicated to them by thelocal nerves supplied from the brain. This is proved by cutting the nerveswhich supply any muscle of the bodywTith force. That muscle, notwithstand-ing it may have a perfect blood supply,yet it is powerless to act. That it iselectrical in any sense, none of the pro-fessors are willing to admit. My studies have brought me in contactwith numbers of eminent savants, suchas Charcot, Ribot, Bjornstrom, and through living subjects, whereas electri-city will pass over objects dead or alive.Magnetism and electrical energy arebrought about by bodies of certain sortsbeing rubbed together. One would rea-son that we generate the same thingby the friction of all our efforts; forexample: A wave

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