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T HE UNJVERS11Y OF NORTH CAROLINA
AT GREENSBORO
JACKSON LIBRARY
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION
History of Physical Education
and Dance
sired for rea.ov.uo VJ. J.llil. O.LC11oVV.1 J..U .. .tpVl. QO,.l..L\;-\7 ULlQo..l.L
the esthetic. Such elements are of absolute importance
for perfect health and the fullest economic
efficiency, since use of the body in proper
poise insures the least friction with consequently
the greatest amount of energy available for
whatever may be required of the individual.
This is of importance not only because of the
effect upon the framework of the body, but because
of the effect which it must have upon the
body as a whole. The human organism resembles
in many ways a delicately balanced machine
made up of many parts each related to the others,
and that which we call perfect health is simply
*Read at a meeting of the Boston Medi cal Library held in conjunction
with the Suffolk District Medical Society, Dec. 2, 1908, and
also at the Meeting of the American Orthopedic Association, at
Hartford, Conn., June 14, 15 ancl16, 1909.
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THE REL.i
EFFICIE1
POISE Ul
OFTHE1
B
THE com
to offer to-n
in which o
assumed in
make up tl
tance than
erect, to wa
parts of th€
balance anc
T HE UNJVERS11Y OF NORTH CAROLINA
AT GREENSBORO
JACKSON LIBRARY
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION
History of Physical Education
and Dance
sired for rea.ov.uo VJ. J.llil. O.LC11oVV.1 J..U .. .tpVl. QO,.l..L\;-\7 ULlQo..l.L
the esthetic. Such elements are of absolute importance
for perfect health and the fullest economic
efficiency, since use of the body in proper
poise insures the least friction with consequently
the greatest amount of energy available for
whatever may be required of the individual.
This is of importance not only because of the
effect upon the framework of the body, but because
of the effect which it must have upon the
body as a whole. The human organism resembles
in many ways a delicately balanced machine
made up of many parts each related to the others,
and that which we call perfect health is simply
*Read at a meeting of the Boston Medi cal Library held in conjunction
with the Suffolk District Medical Society, Dec. 2, 1908, and
also at the Meeting of the American Orthopedic Association, at
Hartford, Conn., June 14, 15 ancl16, 1909.
1
c.