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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
Besides the instruction at the Gymnastic Institute, short courses of
lessons in medical gymnastics are given, by teachers engaged for this
purpose, to the medical students at the university in Uppsala and at
the Caroline Institute in Stockholm.
The Central Gymnastic Institute not being able to receive more than &
limited number of pupils, several private institutes have arisen at the side of
it for the instruction of medical gymnasts — in Stockholm as well as in the
larger provincial towns. At some few of these institutes in Stockholm the
teaching is good, theoretically as well as practically; at most of them, however,
it falls below the mark. The certificates, given without control, do not qualify
for legitimation in Sweden. The majority of gymnasts educated in this way —
about 200 a year — have their sphere of activity abroad.
In almost every town and at every watering place in Sweden there
exist establishments for the practice of medical gymnastics. In each
year more than 4,000 patients are treated gymnastically at the larger
medical gymnastic establishments and of these about 30 % gratuitously;
at the watering places more than 5,000 patients are thus treated annually.
Between 1880 and 1890, Stockholm began to be visited by large
numbers of foreign medical men for the purpose of studying medical
gymnastics, mostly from Germany, Austria, Russia, and America; since
1890, by many from Switzerland, France, and Italy too. The Scandinavian
countries had already at an earlier period profited by our practical
experience.
In proportion as Swedish medical gymnastics have become known
and recognized in foreign countries, Swedish teachers of the art have
won positions throughout the whole of the civilized world, particularly
in the larger towns and watering places in Europe, many also in
America, some even in Asia.
Medical gymnastics were originally employed chiefly in cases of
diseases and troubles in the visceral organs and nervous system, by and by
they began to be employed for pains in the joints and for deformities of
various kinds, and have recently been applied to increase the efficiency
of the functions after external injuries and surgical operations, and last
of all to shorten the period of convalescence after certain kinds of fever.
Among Swedish authors on this subject may be mentioned T. Brandt, T. J.
Hartelius, P. H. Ling, H. Sätherberg, A. Wide, E. W. Wretlind, and G. Zander.
The most complete work on the subject is the Manual in Medical Gymnastics
by A. Wide, 1896, — also published in German, French, and English.
Treatise on Medical Gymnastics by T. J. Hartelius was before that the work
most studied, it has also been translated into German and French.
Zander’s Medico-mechanical system of Gymnastics.
The elaboration of this system of gymnastics was commenced as
far back as 1857 by Dr. Gustaf Zander at Stockholm. His first institute
was started in the capital in 1805.
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