Word: thorax
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...finest of all physical exercises. It develops especially the lower portion of the chest, the legs and arms. Running, at a regular and fixed pace; boxing, to teach one to keep the temper under adverse circumstances; rowing, and canoeing, to strengthen the upper part of the thorax and chest, are useful. The benefit to be derived from regular practice in a gymnasium, by which the mind and nerve-centres are so trained that they have a certain amount of control over the body, and while the muscles may give out, this mental power when once obtained by physical training will...