Gymnastics in heart diseases / by Claës J. Enebuske.

  • Enebuske, Claës Julius.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Gymnastics in heart diseases / by Claës J. Enebuske. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the inner order of the things they have the same rela¬ tion to the business of the medical profession as the pedagogical gymnastics have to the business of the pedagogical profession. The postures and movements needed for the purpose of pedagogical gymnastics have generally a different character, are more active than those generally needed for medical purposes, which sometimes are entirely passive. However, in the preparatory training under pedagogical gymnastics of weaker, yet healthy individ¬ uals, postures and movements are often needed, which resemble or are identically the same as those used in medical gymnastics. On the other hand, in the treat¬ ment of patients by medical gymnastics, particularly in the after-treatment, postures and movements of the same character as those used in pedagogical gymnastics are often employed. The boundary-line between peda¬ gogical and medical gymnastics cannot be clearly drawn by stating that such or such movements and postures are pedagogical gymnastics and such others are medical gymnastics. The movements and postures are common, belonging to both branches. The dis¬ tinction lies in the purpose to which they are adapted. They are pedagogical gymnastics when they serve education and are administered by persons qualified to serve education ; they are medical gymnastics when they serve medicine and are administered by persons qualified to serve medicine. The title of my paper, “ Gymnastics in Heart Dis¬ eases,” may perhaps at first impress with an accent of novelty. I feel confident, however, that if, by your courtesy, gentlemen, the definitions of the terms gym¬ nastics and medical gymnastics, which I have sug¬ gested, are adopted by you during the discussion of my subject to-night, a few words only may suffice at the outset to divest the title of my paper of all trace of novelty. When, ages ago, a physician advised a sufferer from heart disease to go to bed and by the re-