Judge — March 22, 1913 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Health and Deep Breathing By D. O. HARRELL, M.D. Did you ever stop to think that the one most important thing in the world to you, and to every other human being—is air? You could live without food or water or clothing for some time; you could not exist five minutes without air. Although everyone knows that one must have air to live, few people understand the vital con- nection between their general health and the quantity and quality of the air they breathe. Physicians find that not one person in twenty (possibly not one in a hundred) habitually breathes deeply. We are able to trace directly to that fact a large proportion of the cases of anemia, nervous breakdown and general ill health which come to us for treatment. A little knowledge of the functions of the lungs and the part they play in maintaining health and vigor in the human body will show the great advantages gained by using one’s breath- ing power to its fullest capacity. Every time your heart beats, a current of bright, red, p fed blood is sent coursing through your arteri ‘to every part of your body, renewing the worn- out tissues with life-giving oxygen and gather- ing up the waste in the system, Then back through the veins to the heart again where it is pumped into the lungs, which rid it of its poisonous matter and give it a fresh supply of oxygen. In the course of forty or fifty heart beats, every drop of blood in your body passes in this way through your heart and lungs. If your supply of air is shut off, the heart goes on pumping just the same, and the blood, laden with impuriti is forced through the arteries and veins again and again, becoming fouler with every circuit. In two or three minutes the brain is clogged--you become unconscious —in a few minutes more the heart itsel un- able to go on, and death results. That is what happens when the supply of air is entirely cut off, as in the case of strangling or drowning. The same thing, to a lesser degree, happens when one habitually breathes in a shallow manner, us- ing only a small portion of the available lung surface. In order to secure and maintain vigorous health of mind and body, the first thing necessary is to make sure that the lungs have an abundant sup- ply of oxygen to thoroughly perform their func- tion of eliminating the poisonous matter which is constantly being deposited in the system through the waste of muscular and nervous tissue. The only sure way to do this is to train oneself to breathe deeply. Many men and women, who have never known from childhood what it is to feel fresh and vig- orous as they start for their day's work, who ae tired out at noon and completely ‘‘done up"’ before they get home at night, would feel themselves different persons after a few weeks of systematic deep breathing. There are a number of publications on this sub- ject which give valuable information to anyone wishing to learn how to breathe deeply. One of the best I have seen is a neat little booklet, published by Paul von Roeckmann, R.S., of 1364 Terminal Bldg., 103 Park Avenue, New York City, which may be obtained of the author for tencents in coin or stamps. It is illustrated with diagrams and written in a pleasing, non- technical style, easily understood by one not a member of the medical profession, Dr. von Boeckman explains in it several simple breath- ing exercises worth many dollars to anyone saffering from the ills caused by insufficient, | [Advertisement. | thallow breathing. Dad's Reason MERCHANT of Boston received not long ago a visit from his aged par- ents, who reside in a town in the west- ern part ofthe State. The son took them to a fashionable church. The hymns being familiar, the visiting pair ‘joined in," the matter of volume being in favor of the father. 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