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PHYSICAL TRAINING. 151
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strained pupil is se position t down and to the often piano in or a' cold drawing room -table till , wh the ere whole she remains frameand in a more
conjustl are especiall van onl tage rema y y allowed the r ks playground lower a f to uneral walk extremities , procession in the stiff unfortunate , becom and and formal e wanting chilled inmates monotony . nothing . . of . While a , rese female to funereal mbling boy boarding s have , melanchol , as Beddoes the -school
adbut sables y and , a hearse . " , y He proceeds to remark that the tipper extremities and muscles
are never exercised in these individuals , and therefore become feeble , and that the consequence , in most instances , is curvature
of the spine , and continues thus : — Jn " shor While t 9 all the the natural requisites form for of the the production body is destroyed of struma , the general ( scrofulou health affecti suffers ) .
s ons we may have he found described in a is large pursued propor . " tion of female hoarding-schools where the system
M . Lugol , Physician to the Hospital of St . Louis , in Paris , in his elaborate work on Scrofulatranslated by Dr . Hankingadds his
, , testimony in these words , —that a girl belonging to a family touched hy this terrible malady , and to whom therefore a sedentary life is
particularly dangerous , " ought , whenever it is practicable , to be educated at home , asin that casea system of judicious management can
b & adopted , which , in a hoarding , -school , , appears to he impossible . ' ' Observe that M . Lugol is not speaking of a sickly childbut
merely of one whose inherited tendencies require the sort of atten , - tion implied in good foodairand" above allexercise . Such an
one should not , he says , be , sent , to a , boarding-school , . Now , when we reflect that almost every family in the land is
touched by consumption , which M . Lugol regards as the natural death of the scrofulouswe are afraid that the number of little irls who
are hardy enoug , h to brave the dangers of our boarding-schools g are uncommonly few !
The same cry is taken up by another French physician , Monsieur A . Fourcault , in an elaborate treatise upon Pulmonary Phthisis .
In the chapter entitled ' Influence des Professions Sedentaires et de la Reclusion , _' he enters into details concerning the
Hdpital-General at Lille , an establishment containing 3 200 persons , the greater part of whom are aged , the rest chiefly children dependent
on public charity . These latter are at first brought up in the country , but as they become older the boys are put out with artisans
in the town , where in their different trades they strengthen year by year , and outgrow the unhealthy tendencies consequent on their
pauper birth ; the girls , on the other hand , are drafted into large and well-ventilated work-rooms , where they sit and sew , or engage
in other merely manual avocations;—their health fails , all the lurking mischief of their inheritance developsand finallthey
are , with very rare exceptions , carried off by som , e acute disease y . According to these well-authenticated facts , a prolonged sojourn in
this establishment is , as M . Fourcault observes , equivalent to a sentence
Physical Training. 151
PHYSICAL TRAINING . 151
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/7/
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