Excerpt from Physiology and Calisthenics: For Schools and Families It is the name of a course of exercises designed to pro mote health, and thus to secure beauty and strength. Gymnastics, also, are exercises designed to secure health and strength. They ordinarily are more severe than this course, while they require apparatus, and a room set apart for the purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.