Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — Deep Breathing. [ARTICLE]

Deep Breathing.

Major General Drayson, of the English army, has made a special study of the art of breathing, and Is now free from coughs, colds, sore throat and other ailments from which he suffered as a young man. He declares food and liquid insignificant in comparison with air in the support of life. A man may live for days without food, but he dies in a few minutes without air. Rapid breathing in pure air, making forty or fifty deep inhalations per minute (the usual number is about twenty), is his panacea for the immediate recovery from headache, toothache, pains in the heart, restlessness and sleeplessness. He recommends for the latter walking about the room, to make sure of not breathing the same air a second time. He considers it an advantage in some cases to place a handkerchief over the nostrils, and filter the air as it passes through the lungs, then forcing it through the mouth. By continued lack of proper oxidation the blood becomes permanently bad, and tissue of the same character Is formed from it, with the result of impairing the health.— Presbyterian Banner.