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A Severe Case of Hypocondria
There were four of us — George, and William Samuel Harris, and
myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were — bad from a medical
point of view I mean, of course.
We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about
it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over
him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George
said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was
doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my
liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a
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Leonardo's drawing: human proportions
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An Artist's View
of
the Human Body
Introduction
The Renaissance is the period of European history which is marked by
a break with the Middle Ages. Renaissance means re-birth. The first
people to speak of the birth of a new and luminous age, who saw the
previous period, the Middle Ages, as Dark Ages, were the Italians.
While the Middle Ages had lived strongly and with a sort of sombre
force, but always under the burden of an obligation to aspire through
suffering to a beyond, in Italy a new confidence, a new optimism was
born: the Renaissance was an enthusia
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Part IX
Perfection of the Body
Painting:
Veronique
Nicolet,
Auroville
Perfection of the Body
The
perfection of the body, as great a perfection as we can bring about by the
means at our disposal, must be the ultimate aim of physical culture.
Perfection is the true aim of all culture, the spiritual and psychic, the
mental, the vital and it must be the aim of our physical culture also. If
our seeking is for a total perfection of the being, the physical part of
it cannot be left aside; for the body is the material basis, the body is
the instrument which we have to use.
Sariram khalu dharmasadhan
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Notes
Body-Building glossary
Barbells — a rod of one meter to which disks of varying weights are
attached at each end and lifted with two hands.
Dumbbells — two metal balls
connected by a rigid handle long enough for the grip of one hand.
Machines — exercising machines
with weights on cables and pulleys, making it possible to use weight
resistance in all directions.
Workout — exercise
Pecs — pectorals, the muscles of the chest.
Squat — to sit on the heels with the knees bent.
Bench Press — a lift of weights (barbells or dumbbells) until the arms are
extended; whi
The Greek hero Heracles slaying the Nemean lion
Strength
Introduction
Man, and particularly modern man, is the weakest of the large animals. If he has come to dominate the terrestrial creation it is by the
power of his mind rather than the strength of his frame. And yet, at the
beginning of his long journey on Earth, sheer physical strength was an
essential condition of his survival; prehistoric humans ran long distances in search of fire or food and were able to kill animals much
larger than themselves. Only the strong tended to survive.
As societies developed and men's activities diversified, strength
became the goal of specialized members of society su
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Notes
Life's Chronology of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
1882 Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at
Hyde Park, New York. 1900 Studies at Harvard University
1904 Law studies at New York City's
Columbia University
1905 Marriage with Eleanor, a distant
cousin, niece of Theodore Roosevelt
1910 Enter into the political arena.
Elected as a Democrat to the New York
State Senate
1912 Re-election. Appointed by Wilson as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
1920 Chosen as the running mate of
presidential candidate James M.Cox. Defeat of their team
1921 Stricken by poliomyelitis
1924 Resumes his political career.
(Beginning of treatment at
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Physical Education in Ancient India
India
has had a long history of physical education, far more ancient than
Greece. But in our times When the Olympic Games occurring every four years
have become probably the biggest planetary event, most people know that
the Games originated more than two thousand years ago in Greece. In
addition, Greeks have given the Western world through many beautiful
statues a keen sense of bodily perfection, an ideal of physical beauty
unsurpassed to this day. There was such an emphasis on the importance of
beauty and physical prowesses that some of the highest honours in Greek
society were bestowed on athletes, to an e
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Cricket
The Jam Sahib of Nawanagar*
As cricket is a very special game in India, we felt that, even if we
could not hope to bring stories about every possible games, we
should at least have one on cricket. We found a very refreshing
short essay by A.G. Gardiner about Ranjit Singh, a Prince
Batsman who enchanted quite long ago the British and Indian
crowds, a legend in the annals of cricket.
The
last ball has been bowled, the bats have been oiled and put away, and
around Lord's the grandstands are empty and sad looking. We have said goodbye to
cricket. We have said good bye, too, to cricket's king. The game will come again
with the sp
Notes
On the positive effect of laughter on health
... While scientists had earlier studied the general effects of laughter on the
body, Cousins' experience has spurred the medical profession to new efforts to
find out how beneficial laughter is in aiding the body's healing process.
Studies have shown that humour has a profound connection with physiological
states and that a surprising number of patients have laughed themselves back
to health, as Cousins did, or at any rate have exploited their sense of humour
as a positive, adaptive response to their illnesses. In fact, a link between
humour and longevity has been established.
Further, laughter has a definite
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Notes
Nutrition and the Cell
Pushed by the necessity of understanding his diseases and bolstered by his
leisure time and insatiable curiosity, western man has used the tools of modern
science to probe the mysteries of living matter. Over the last century, medical
science has come increasingly to focus on the basic structure of protoplasm.
The human body has been examined in increasing detail -— even the inside
of what had been considered the smallest unit of life, the cell. Recently our
understanding of the events inside the cell has become more and more
detailed. The electron microscope has revealed for us the inner structure of the
cell's substance and has he