Judge — October 4, 1913 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Deep Breathing By D. 0. HARRELL, M.D. I believe we must all admit that deep breath- ing is a very desirable practice. Furthermore, we know it to bea fact that not one person in twenty, or perhaps one person in a hundred, really breathes deeply. Every physician can verify the statement that we are daily called upon to prescribe drugs for ailments that owe their cause directly to insufficient and improper breathing—Oxygen Starvation. | Breathing is the Vital Force of Life. Every cle, nerve cell, in fact every fibre of our body, directly dependent upon the air we breat! Health, Strength and Endurance are impossible without well oxygenated blood. The food we eat must combine with abundant oxygen before it can become of any value to the body. Breathing is to the body what free draught is to the steam boiler. Shut off the draught, and you will kill your fire, no matter how excellent coal you use. Similarly, if you breathe shallowly, you must become anaemic, weak and thin, no matter how carefully you may select your diet. I might continue indefinitely to cite exam- ples of the great physiological value of deep breathing. For instance, it is a well known fact that worry, fear, and intense mental con- centration practically paralyze the breathing muscles. This depressing condition can be entirely overcome through conscious deep breathing. The main benefit of physical exercise lies in the activity it gives the lungs. What we term “Jack of healthful exercise’’ in reality means insufficient lung action. Exercise that does not compel vigorous deep breathing is of little real value. Unfortunately few persons have the strength and endurance to exercise violently enough to stir the lungs into rapid action. T is especi ly true of women and also of men who h per mitted their muscles to become weak. Common sense, therefore, dictates that the lungs should be exercised independently through deep breathing gymnastics. Unfortunately few persons have the slightest con- ception of what is really meant by deep breathing. In fact, few physicians thoroughly understand the act. Ask a dozen different physical instructors to define deep breathing, and you will receive a dozen different answers. One tells you it means the full expansion of the chest, another tells you it means abdominal breathing, the third declares it means diaphragmatic breathing, and so on. Recently there has been brought to my notice a brochure on this important subject of respiration, that to my knowledge for the first time really treats the subject in a thoroughly scientific and practical manner. I refer to the booklet, entitled ** Deep Breathing,” by Paul von Boeckmann, R.S. In this treatise, the author describes proper breathing, so that even the most uninformed layman can get a correct idea of the act. The booklet contains a mass of common sense teachings on the subject of Deep Breathing, and ** Internal Exercise.” The author has had the courage to think for himself, and to ex- pose the weaknesses in our modern systems of physi- cal culture. I believe this booklet gives us the real key to con- stitutional strength. It shows us plainly the danger of excessive exercise, that is, the danger of develop- ing the external body at the expense of the internal body. The author's arguments are so logical it is self-evident that his theories must be based upon vast experience. Personally, 1 know that his teach- ings are most profoundly scientific and thoroughly practical, for | have had occasion to see them tested with a number of my patients. The booklet to which I refer can be obtained upon pprment of ten cents in coin or stamps by addressing von Boeckmani directly at 1941 Tower Bldg., 110 W. 40th St., New York. 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