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 | | The old Doctor did not keep people waiting in dread suspense, while he stayed talking about the case,--the patient all the time thinking that he and the friends are discussing some alarming symptom or formidable operation which he himself is by-and-by to hear of. |
 | | The history of modern gymnastic exercises is easily written: it is proper to say modern,--for, so far as apparatus goes, the ancient gymnasiums seem to have had scarcely anything in common with our own. |
 | | The first institution on the modern plan was founded at Schnepfenthal, near Gotha, in Germany, in 1785, by Salzmann, a clergyman and the principal of a boys' school. |
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