Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-01-02
Health by Breathing.
What is biood2

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What is btOod2
Blood flows In every part Of the body
except the nails, hair and the cornea of the
eye. The quantity OF it in any human
body is about one-eight Of the weight. If
you weigh LIS lbs, you have some l6 lbs, ,
Of blood. 1t contains red globules which
give it its color; also white globules which
are fewest and largest. and both kinds con-
stitute fully one-half the entire mass of the
blood. The other half is a wstery huid in
which the globules float.
What Does Blood Dos
Particles Of the body are always dy ing
piled. The blood has the double work Of
carrying away much of the waste and Of
furnishing all the new. The wear and
tear of labor and disease must If at all be
made up wholly by the blood, which rs it
circulates feeds all the nerves, muscles,
bones and every tissue and fibre.
Blood heals ulcers. Blood unites the
fractured bone. Blood drives sickness
from the system. Blood increases weight,
gives the eye its luste-, the cheek its flush.
The entire body replenishes itself from the
blood and is constantly draining it of its
richness.
Good health has plenty OF good blood
but in disease the blood Is always bad. If
you can regulate your blood you can rcgu-
late your health and life.
H0,r does OrygeH act on Bl0od2
The air we breathe is made up Of two
gascs-oxygen one part, and nitrogen four
parts by measure. Mix these gases in
these proportions and you form air. Usu-
ally ahoat in 1t are 4 little carbonc acid
gas, watery vapor. and trace OF amonia
The lungs are fall of cells, many mil
lions about one seventy-fifth of an inch in
diameter when of average size they pre-
sent surface Of 400 square feet, and can
contain 320 cubic inches of air. When in
health we breathe almost Is times min
ute aud draw in at one inhslation two
thirds OF pint OF air in minute 10 pints,
~ an hour some 15 gallons and In one day
and night $500 gallons.
or the 10 pints of air We inhale in one
minute, l-jth or pints are orygen OF which
the blood ab>orbs l-ith or II a pint OF
the - gallons inhaled n one hour, l5 gal
Ions are oxygen. of which the blood alb
serbs about gallons, at the same rate in
day and night 90 gallons of oxygen are
taken through the air cells into the blood
At every beat Of the heart about ouuces of
deep purple blood, impoverished and i'm
pure enters the lungs and in the most del
icate vessels difuses itself over the surface
OF the air cells which are filled with breath
One II OF the oxygen in jthis breath at
once darts through the membrane into the
blood aud from the blood out into the
open cell comes about the same quantity
OF carbonc acid gas, a deadly poison also
some yapor Of water containing etiete
matter. When blood j. eutctin. the lungs
70 meet the air it contains OF oxygen only
; per cent. but OF carbonic acid gas 20 per
cent. After II is purified and is leaving the
lungs it has IS per cent. OF oxygen and of
carbolic acid gas only 6 per cent The
The breath We exhaie i one twenty ffth
carbonic acid gas.
Oxygen Is the food of the red globules j.;
They absorb themselves full of 1t. In them
the color changes. II takes about min
utes for all the blood in the body to 20
through this process.
We see by this the stupendous Import.
ance of good air, and good breathing Let
parents beware how they pack their chill
dren into illventiated schoolhouses. There
IS the p(rce where hundreds SOW the seeds
OF consumption. | might add also in close
illventilated sleeping rooms. Purifying
the blood cures disease.
Ifyou are diseased your blood is impure.
Read the best Medical Books and you will
be surprised at the unerring precision with
which every Illness is traced to defective
blood.
If bad blood causes disease, it can only
be cured by good blood How may we
obtain a sufficient quantity OF pure blood?
lst. by bathing; "a, by diet; Sd, By ex-
ercise; 4th, by proper clothing; 9th, ny
rest; 9th, by sleep; eth, by sunshine aud
Sth by breathing pure air Every one of
these indispensable laws OF health should
be carefully studied and Observed
We cannot consider too carefully the
guilty of the air We breath. If the blood
is bad, in most cases the breathing has
been long bad. 1t may be that an insult
tcent quantity of air has been inhaled: il
ha>fallen short OF two-thirdS OF pint at a
breath especially in those who sit sewing
or at school and bend forward. Ii may be
the air has become contaminated by a lack
of ventilation. The blood has too little
oxygen. When it needed four gallons an
hour by measure it got 3 or 2. In this way
carbonic acid gas and etfete matter have
noL been iully thrown of and with these
poisons the blood has gradually become
over charged; 1t not only ceases to be
carrier OF hearth, hut causes all manner OF
disease. In different persons appear symp-
toms OF neural gia, rheumatism. scrofula,
chils and fever, diptherla, dyspepsia. dys-
entery, loss of appetite, cancellation. cough
headache and consumption OF the lungs
70 purify the blood, and purge disease
from the system more oxygen is needed.
The blood must have all it will absorb
This is done by breathing it,
BENJAMIN DODGE.
Lebanon Centre Maine.
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