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TECHNIC OF LING’S SYSTEM
OF
MANUAL TREATMENT.
INTRODUCTION.
It is now more than eighty years since the idea of curing diseases
by well-regulated movements first occurred to the Swede, Peter
Henrik Ling.
P. He. Ling was born in the year 1776. His father was a
Protestant minister. He went through the usual course, of
training preparatory to entering the University, where, in
accordance with his parents’ desire, he took up the study of divinity.
The tendency of Ling’s character, however, disposed him to a
more active life, and as soon as he was free to follow his own
inclinations, he started travelling on the Continent.
Very little is known about him during his wanderings.
Certain it is that he returned home well versed in foreign
languages, and a perfect master of the art of fencing; but also,
in consequence of the hardships he had undergone, with a
shattered constitution. This, however, did not prevent him from
following his favourite pursuits, and we thus find him at the
beginning of the century working hard at gymnastics and
fencing.
Ling gradually regained his health, and on his appointment,
in 1804, to the post of fencing master at the University of
Lund, he was a strong and wiry man. He rightly attributed
the change to the gymnastic exercises he had taken; and he
further drew the conclusion that what had been good for him
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