Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — Bicycles Good for the Lungs. [ARTICLE]

Bicycles Good for the Lungs.

Of all means of training the respiration Dr. Fortesque Fox thinks eyeling is the best. When a person first takes to cycling he is troubled with shortness of breath, his heart heats uncomfortably, and his legs get tired, but after some training these discomforts disappear. Why should not people liable to attacks of asthma also truin their respiration by such a kind of exercise—of course, on condition of tho heart and lungs being in perfect health? Cycling exercise first of all increases the depth of breathing, and that without fatigue, as the respiratory movements are automatic; and.it will also accustom the rider instinctively to take in at each respiration the volume of air required to aerate the blood and to eliminate a fixed proportion of carbonic acid, leaving in the circulation the precise amount compatible with health.