Excerpt from The Annals of Hygiene, Vol. 3: January 1 November 1, 1888When I look in Upton's Tactics, he says the movements in the tactics are confined principally to the movements required in war, and he acknowledges that the military drill is not all that is desirable for physical culture, therefore he sets a great deal by the setting up drill, but this is generally gone through with in a very slighting manner.The military drill was brought forward in 1863 as a war movement and it is now advocated as a means of physical culture. In the manual of arms twelve out of the sixteen movements are executed on the right side of the body, four on the left side. At least three-quarters of all the work is done on the right side of the body.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.