He stretched his limbs in the most unusual way.
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Mechanically Assisted Stretching he called it, the pinnacle of therapeutic limb elongation.
"Now see here" he said, pointing at a leather buckle that dangled at the end of long chain, "this is where I place my right arm." He attached himself as way of demonstration.
Both his feet were already bound to his contraption and, with some help, he also attached his left arm into the relevant buckle.
"Most powerful stretch known to man" he boasted.
The engines fired up and his limbs became taught.
"Marvelous", he wheezed.
Charles Pembroke was not dealing well with the death of his wife.