Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-10

things except the laws of health and life.
went to England when "a, and got some
hints from there. In those days very little
attention was paid to hygiene, and after re-
turning 1 began to put into practice what
had learned, and ever since that time 1
have increased in weight and size. 1
Increased my chest measure II inches, and
my weight from so to 60 pounds. You will
be surprised to know that this was done
without my ever going into gymnasium.
Health in Long Bresths.
'fI could only use the means within the
reach OF blind man. and one of the princi-
pal means of increasing my size and weight
which I adopted was air, taking larger
and larger quantity into my lungs. have
cultivated breathing as the basis of life, SO
that now 1 suppose I can inhale and exhale
as large quantity of atmosphere as any
living man. That is the secret of the deyel-
opment of physique, to take into your lungs
the whole amount of air which your lungs
are intended to receive, and that is, in the
case of man of fair chest proportions, $50
cubic inches. The well built men in this
country do not take in 200 inches.
''The first thing you do when you awake
in the morning is TO be sure you have q cur
rent OF fresh air passing through your room.
Remove the heavy bed clothing from your
person, leaving only sheet over you, lie rs
nearly fiat as you can, draw up the knees
and relax the muscles of the abdomen.
Then with your mouth closed aud your chin
raised, in order to relieve all constraint
about your chest, draw in all the air you
can without violence, doing 1t gradually
and without painful effort Hold the air
as long as you can and breathe it out
through the mouth or nose, in the former
case with effort.
Never Breath Through the Mouth
"Close your lips as soon as all is out, and
practice doing all your inhalations through
your nostrils, never under any circumstances
inhaling through The mouth. l would
rather drink the water left in finger bowl
at the close OF White House dinner, than
to take in one spoonful OF Washington air
through my mouth. Do this breathing
while in bed in the morning for five or ten
minutes. This has been my constant habit
for a number OF years.
"You will remember the Bible SAYS: God
breathed into mans nostrils the breath of
lie, and be became a living soul Shake
speare and other famous men speak of the
nostrils as the only proper channel to be
used in breathing, and 1t is an uncontra-
ulcted TACT that the Indians who never
breathed through their mouth were never
subject TO thousands of our diseases, until
coming into contact with modern civiliza-
tion he was induced TO adopt the white mans
silly method, and he at once became sus-
ceptibIe to all of those ills of the Caucasian.
In the pulpit the very moment 1 need
supply of fresh air close the mouth, and |
the great range and power of nv voice L at
tribute most largely to the development of
the lungs through my great breathing
capacity"
Badness and the Sun Cure.
"Air is my first prescription" continued |
DR.. Milburn; ''the sun is my next / |
often walk about with nv hat off in the |
sun, and it was practice of Goethe TO do |
this for an hour at noon. He said it stimu- |
lated his intellect, and that there was a vital |
and quickening power in the suns rays. |
Thirty years ago 1 began to be bald. Nv |
father aud younger brothers were as bald as
the palm OF your hand when they were 40, |
but told them when they informed me
that l was getting bald, that would never
be so. l have resolved 10 prevent il and l |
did. 1 never wear a hat when 1 can help
it, and 1 am no; as barefooted to-day on the
top of my head as 1 was in 1860. wash
my hair whenever 1 wash my face and
hands.
D II have muscular exercise, flight dumb
bell exercise Dr. Milburn went on, land