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The Evolution of Medical Views on Exercise

Henry Heather Bigg

Bigg, Henry Heather, Orthopraxy: The Mechanical Treatment of Deformities, Debilities, and Deficiencies of the Human Frame, London: John Churchill and Sons, 1865.

Definition Objective

Systematic exercise to reinvigorate a muscle debilitated by disease

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