Note 229 — Chapter XXII · THE “NEW GYMNASTICS” OF DIO LEWIS.

It has already been noted (p. 157) that under Branting’s directorship of the Central Institute in Stockholm (1839-1862) foreign physicians began to be attracted by the new system of treatment, and among them Mathias Roth of London. Roth afterwards published “The Prevention and Cure of Many Chronic Diseases by Movements” (London, 1851), a translation of “The Gymnastic Free Exercises of P. H. Ling, Arranged by H. Rothstein” (London, New York, and Boston, 1853), and “Handbook of the Movement Cure” (London, 1856). The first American physicians to write at length on the subject were the Taylor brothers of New York, George H. Taylor “An Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure” (New York, Fowler & Wells) in 1860, and Charles F. Taylor his “Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure” (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston) a year later. Bayard Taylor spent the late winter and spring of 1857 in Stockholm, visiting the Central Institute regularly as a “patient,” and described his experiences in letters to the New York Tribune and in his volume “Northern Travel” (London and New York, 1857. Consult pp. 202-206).