The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-24
HEALTH AND HYGIENE.

from q lecture delivered at the Acad-
envy of Natural Science recently by
Seneca Egbert, Nj. d.
Insufficient mastication and food that
disagress and only tickles the palate
should be avoided.
No one eslects bodily exercise to any
degree without paving the way for future
trouble.
proper scheme for healthy living
would involve the training OF all the
memh hers of the body.
Muscles unused become smaller in size,
f,sbby and weak; usa hardens, strength
ems and makes them more responsive to
the will.
Exercise does more than strengthen
and harden muscles. A microscopic ex-
animation shows muscles constantly uEeo
are the more healthy.
The value of bodily organ depends
upon it's use. This oftener it is dlsln-
tegrated by action and rebuilt py the
proper putting together OF the 1000 stnHs
from the digestive organs, the more
times it is relnade, the better it is.
The use Of the muscles exerts notable
influence upon circulation.
Athletes who have contracted heat
trouble either have not taken thar train
ing judiciously, or, having developed
large heart, neglected their athletic work
and are then visited with troubles which
could have been avoided by exercise.
Whers the heart is organically diseased
and the pei son enters Immediately upon
some tremendous muscular task, she
heart may give way.
Under nroper muscular exercise the
heart drives the blood in increased Vol
ulne, not only through the muscles con-
cerned. but through all parts OF the
body. and the oxygen absorbed by the
lungs is conveyed through the system
more thoroughly, with better elimination
of waste materials.
Every contraction OF muscle drives
the blood out Of that muscle by squeez.
ing the vessel which, as netwol k,
pierce it, and the muscle is thus emptied.
When relaxed again the blood is driven
into the muscle and again squeezed out
on the way to the heart, SO that every
muscular action helps the heart
In Iuan at rest the heart does prac-
ideally ell the work; when the man
works the muscles and largely in the
oloodpumping process.
An over developed heart will be OF no
inconvenience if the individ ual keeps up
a normal amount of bodily exercise.
A man walking four miles an hour
takes in five times as much oxygen as
when at rest.
A Iaboring man will in a day excrets
through the lungs, in the form of car
bonic acid gas, an amount of carbon
eo uivnlent to lump of coke as big as
his two fists.
Exercise should not make rs breathe
much more rapidly than We do normally.
but deeper.
Most of us are too lazy with out lungs,
not knowing how to fill them evenly,
smoothly and fully.
Most people have hollows above their
collar bones. which is wrong. The apex
of the lungs should project up into that
space and fill it pretty nearly full, max
ing an almost even surface with the
neck.
One should breathe deeply and fully,
otherwise the lungs apex imprisons
stagnant pool of air, soon fillsd with
dust and organisms Of all kinds, and nor
mally an excel lent germ-b breeder.
Most GASES of phtnlsis begin in the apex
of the lungs.
Women, though closer housed and more
away from the fresh air, do not have
as much as men.
The lessened liability to consumption
enjoyed by women is due partly to thsir
loose-throated dresses, allowing full ex-
pansion of tne lungs at the apex which
most men do not use.
The blood of person getting a suffi-
ciency of pure air tingles to the tips Of
the fingers and toes and the elimination
of waste matter in the food is much
cl arer perfection.
A mnn using his muscles demands
more food than aD inactive one but
owing to the increased circulation of the
blood through the muscles and to the in
creased supply of oxygen, there will be
better manufacture OF gastric and other
digestive juices, and better digestion, alb
sorption and assimilation.
Muscular effort carries blood to the
brain and favors it's nutrition.
Manual training and physical exercise
ne valuable aids in the development of
the weak minded and those who suffer
from mental troubles.
Proper bodily exercise causes the skin
to throw of large amounts of waste mat
ter which otherwise would accumulate,
irritate and cause bad complexion.
Every man is a personal equation by
himself. What Is good for one may no
be for another.
To maintain the health man of one
hundred and fifty pounds needs exercise
equivalent to raising 800 tons one foot
per day or walking nine miles per Edf y.
Do not walk the nine miles in addition
to other work.