Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — The Art of Breathing. [ARTICLE]

The Art of Breathing.

It is perhaps one of the signs ot the times, to those alert for indications, that the art of breathing has become more and more a. subject of attention. Oculists as well as physiologists go deeply into its study in a way hardly to be touched upon here. Physicians have cured aggravated cases of insomnia by long-drawn regular breaths, fever-stricken patients have been quieted, stubborn forms of indigestion made to disappear. A tendency to consumption may be entirely overcome, as some authority has within the last few years clearly demonstrated, by exercises in breathing. Seasickness, too, may be surmounted, and the victim of hypnotic influence taught to withstand the force of any energy directed against him. There is a famous physician of Muwich, who has written an extensive norkupon the subject of breathing. He has, besides formulated a system by which asthmatic patients are made to walk without losing breath, while sufferers from weakness of the heart are cured. At Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol, his patients (almost every royal house of Europe is represented) are put through a certain system of breathing and walking. The mountain paths are all marked off with stakes of different colors, each indicating the number of minutes in which a patient must walk the given distance, the breathing and walking being in time together. As the cure progresses the ascents are made steeper and steeper.