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Medicina Gymnastica or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers
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11 totalWe whose Names are here Subscrib’d, having perus’d this Discourse, Entitled, *Medicina Gymnastica, &c.* Judge it well Worthy to be Communicated to the Publick.
THE PREFACE.
Medicina Gymnastica: OR, A TREATISE Concerning the Power of Exercise With Respect to the Animal Oeconomy.
OF THE CONSUMPTION.
OF THE DROPSIE.
OF THE Hypochondriacal DISTEMPER.
OF THE EXERCISE OF RIDING.
OF CHAFING.
Of being Exercis’d to bear COLD.
The Practice of the Ancients.
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Medicina Gymnastica or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers
Language
en
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~4 hours (234K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2020-10-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Francis Fuller
1670–1706
An early English medical writer, he is best remembered for linking exercise with health at a time when that idea still felt fresh. His most famous book grew out of his own struggles with illness and helped keep his name in print long after his short life ended.
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