The health-lift reduced to a science
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Title
The health-lift reduced to a science
Subject
Advertisements
Brochures
Testimonials
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Description
The Reactionary Lifter was sold by the Health-Lift Company of New York as a muscle exercise and strength-building device, suitable for men and women. A testimonial letter by Holmes appears in this marketing brochure: “My three months’ experience of the Health Lift has been entirely satisfactory. It furnishes a concentrated form of exercise which I have found salutary, agreeable and exhilarating. It calls the blood into the muscles and leaves them ready for further action, so that I have found myself more disposed to take a long walk after four or five lifts than before. I may add that the particular apparatus used at your rooms, ‘The Reactionary Lifter,’ is a most ingenious, convenient, compact and serviceable arrangement, by which the lifter’s own weight is made to do service, and by an easy and simple adjustment of leverage, to furnish a resistance to be overcome, all the way from 20 to 1000 pounds and more.”
Abstract
Advertising brochure for the Reactionary Lifter exercise machine, in which there is a testimonial letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Creator
Health-Lift Co., New York
Publisher
the Company
Date Created
1876
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (1.Mh.1876.H)
Format
image
Extent
1 advertisement
Language
English
Type
still image
Identifier
DigID0002131
Provenance
Transferred from the Harvard College Library to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1933
Files
Collection
Citation
Health-Lift Co., New York, “The health-lift reduced to a science,” OnView, accessed May 10, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/index.php/items/show/6273.