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    Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old
    Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old
    Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old
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    Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old

    By Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2008
    Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old

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      Swimming Scientifically Taught - Frank Eugen Dalton

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      Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton

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      Title: Swimming Scientifically Taught

      A Practical Manual for Young and Old

      Author: Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton

      Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19065]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SWIMMING SCIENTIFICALLY TAUGHT ***

      Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Melissa Er-Raqabi

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      SWIMMING

      SCIENTIFICALLY TAUGHT

      FRANK EUGEN DALTON

      SWIMMING

      SCIENTIFICALLY

      TAUGHT

      A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR

      YOUNG AND OLD

      By

      PROF. FRANK EUGEN DALTON, P.S.A.

      Instructor in Scientific Swimming at the Dalton Swimming

      School, and Originator of the Dalton Method

      and

      A Chapter on Advanced Strokes

      By

      LOUIS C. DALTON

      Of the Dalton Swimming School

      WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

      FIFTH EDITION

      FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      Copyright, 1912 and 1918, by

      FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

      (Printed in the United States of America)

      Revised Edition, Published May, 1918

      Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the

      Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910

      TO MY FATHER

      The Late Capt. Davis Dalton

      who swam the English Channel from Cape Grisnez near Boulogne, France, to Folkestone, England, August 16-17, 1890; whose enthusiasm and unflagging interest in all matters pertaining to swimming and life-saving have been excelled by none, and who was a faithful practitioner of the methods herein set forth, this book is affectionately dedicated by his son,

      THE AUTHOR

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      ILLUSTRATIONS

      PART I

      INTRODUCTION

      THE IMPORTANCE OF SWIMMING

      That all persons ought to know how to safeguard themselves when in deep water is becoming more and more recognized as time passes. While swimming is probably the oldest pastime known to man, and has had, and still has, its votaries in every country, civilized or uncivilized, it is curious that this most useful science should have been so much neglected.

      For an adult person to be unable to swim points to something like criminal negligence; every man, woman and child should learn. A person who can not swim may not only become a danger to himself, but to some one, and perhaps to several, of his fellow beings. Children as early as the age of four may acquire the art; none are too young, none too old. Doctors recommend swimming as the best all-around exercise. It is especially beneficial to nervous people. Swimming reduces corpulency, improves the figure, expands the lungs, improves the circulation of the blood, builds up general health, increases vitality, gives self-confidence in case of danger, and exercises all the muscles in the body at one time. As an aid to development of the muscular system, it excels other sports. Every muscle is brought into play.

      In other important ways it is a useful, and even a necessary accomplishment; no one knows when he may be called upon for a practical test of its merits. The Slocum steamboat catastrophe in the East River, New York, several years ago, gave a melancholy example of what better knowledge of swimming might have done to save the lives of passengers. That awful tragedy, which plunged an entire city into mourning, was too appalling to have its details revived here, but, regardless of the fact that the life-preservers on board were found unfit for use, the loss of life would have been made much smaller had the unfortunate passengers known how to keep their heads above water until help arrived. Millions of people are transported yearly by river craft,

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