Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — BREATHE THROUGH YOUR EARS [ARTICLE]

BREATHE THROUGH YOUR EARS

In those prehistoric times "When you were a tadpole and I was a frog," we breathed through our gills, and if we still did tuberculosis and all kindred germs would have a batting average of .000. Such are the teachings of Dr. John G. Davis of the University of Virginia medical department, delivered before a local body of medical students, according to a Washington correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. “You can exhale air through the ears now. Just take a chett full of air, close the nostrils and try to exhale. The air will come out through the ears. Muscles of this old breathing organ have been out of practice for a few thousand years and It will require some practice to get them in order. "I would advise mothers to train their children in this new but old mode of breathing. It will greatly help against man troubles, as there would be no chance of getting Infectious matter Into the lungs or throat. After a little practice a child will be able to close or shut his ears just as a fish works his gills. “Originally the nose was used for smelling only. After a while man began taking long, generous smells, and later developed his breather into a smeller at the expense of his ’gills.* If my advice were followed man would have three breathing organs instead of two within two generations.*'