Transcript Diocletian Lewis

Historical Figure Presentation
Basic Facts
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Life Span: 1823 –
1886
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Studied at Harvard
Medical School
 Lack of funds
prevented him from
finishing course
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Invented the bean
bag and wooden
dumbbells
Diocletian
Lewis
Promoting Physical Education
and Good Health
Did more to promote Physical Education
than any other single individual
 Edited and published a medical
magazine in New York which he
supported physical exercise as a part of
public education
 From 1852-1863 he was engaged in
lecturing on hygiene, physiology of the
human body, and the promotion of
abstinence of alcohol
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Contributions to our profession
 Created
a system (Dio Lewis
System) with vigorous exercise
routines
 Routines accompanied by music,
dance and social games to get the
heart rate up
 Wanted boys, fat men, and women
to have a system they could use to
exercise
Contributions to our profession
Cont.
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Opened the Normal Institute of Physical
Education in Boston
 In seven years, 500 pupils graduated
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His influence had much to do with the
establishment of the present system of
physical culture in most of the
institutions of leaning in the U.S.
I Agree
I agree with everything Lewis did for our
profession
 He created a system that can work for
everyone and anyone, and his lectures
of physical education and promotion of
good health and hygiene is how his
philosophies can be useful in teaching
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References

Introduction to Physical Education Fitness
and Sport/Daryl Siedentop. – 7th ed.
http://homeoint.org/photo/l/lewisd.htm
 http://sueyounghistories.com/archives/2007
/12/11/diocletian-lewis-and-homeopathy/
 http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Contro
versies/Biography-DiocletianLewis.html#.Uj8WnIako8Q
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Questions for the Class
1.
What did the Dio Lewis System consist of?
2.
Who was the Dio Lewis system designed
for?
3.
Do you think the promoting Lewis did and
the system he created made a great
contribution to todays physical education,
or do you think he made a lesser
contribution?