Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — THE LATE DR. DIO LEWIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATE DR. DIO LEWIS.

Dr. Dio Lewis, tbe Well-Known Hygienic Befcnrer and Author, Died Not Long Ago at His Home in Yonkers, N.Y. In Felruary he was thrown from his horse, receiving a slight wound on the left leg, and some weeks afterward unusual fatigue in walking was followed by erysipelatous inflammation of the wounded leg. A serious phleumonous erysipelas in a few days implicated the entire limb, and finally extended to the body and caused death. Dr. Lewis was born in Auburn, N. Y., March 3, 1823. He studied medicine at Harvard College, and practiced in Port Byron, removing thence to Buffalo. He

traveled and lectured for a number of years on physiology and hygiene, until he settled in Boston, and there developed his system of exercise for schools and homes, teaching that the body should be trained as well as the mind to insure the perfect development of the human being. He opened a school for young ladies at Lexington, Mass., where he could embody his ideas of physical training, and he had great success, the school numbering some one hundred and sixty pupils, many of them brokendown invalids from other institutions. The building was burned in 18G7. Since then he has devoted himself to lecturing and writing on health subjects. He was the originator of the Woman’s Temperance Crusade in Ohio. He spent his last few years inNewYqrk and vicinity and removed to Yonkers in September last. For the two years preceding bis death he published in New York Dio Lewis' Nuggets, a bi-monthly. His published works on his favorite topic of hygienic education include “New Gymnastics,” “Weak Lungs, and How to Make Them Strong,” “Talks About People’s Stomachs,” and “Our Girls.” For several years his Dio Lewis Monthly has published in brief form the matter that afterward was issued in volume. His last work, “The Dio Lewis Treasury,” is now in press.