The entirety of Popular Science from 1872 has been put on Google Books
I was perusing the Popular Sciences where I came across this very amusing article about athletic exercise for babies. Pictures include babies being bent in half, and held up by the head, as if it were a good thing... : books.google.com/books?id=kioDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0_0#PPA39,M1
(, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 10:37, Reply)