Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26

tracts the oxygen; this charges both the air
and the blood cells positively and thereby
generates a powerful self acting propelling
force by each r~epelling that IN the other.
Just from the Air We Breathe.
Is not this problem plain, az well as sim
Pile? That II is the oxygen from the air we
breathe and not muscular contraction OF the
heart hat gives this tremendous power TO
push the blood through this hne net work
OF blood vessels throughout the body. And
this force, not like dynamic pressure. which
would strain or even burst the heart, while
the other works on a different principle |
that of mutual antagonism and not Of pres
sure. p"H1
A fluid charged with electricity through
an elastic tube will produce the same waves
as we find in the arteries, which we call the
pulse beat; hence we find no pulse beat in
the veins as it moves along leisurely in its
negative state toward the heart, after hav-
ing discharged its oxygen in the process OF
combustion and nutrition.
This oxygen or electricity is held in the
air cells by the breathing crowding the air
cells full, which keeps passing through into
the blood cells, and the air cells being
charged by the air breathed. This leaves
no escape for the electricity In the air cells,
while that in the blood cells has full lib
erty to rush away from that in the air cells
to the ~extremities OF the whole system. The
muscles and nerves now seize this oxygen
thus brought and consume 1t in carrying
on the various operations and functions of
the life process, which leaves this blood neg
alive by the time it gets through these
capillaries into the veins. This negative
state of venous blood now attracts 1t back
to the lungs only to be charged positively
and sent off again on its life sustaining cir
cult.
Just think of the vast amount Of power
that is required to propel this blood to the
surface of these minute capillaries and to
overcome all the obstacles 1t has to en-
counter; for instance, the pressure of a
person weighing 200 pounds sitting on a
fence or board for hours and yet the blood
must be pushed along through this point
of pressure-between board and bone, in
spite of this heavy, steady weight and
many other like distractions. Think of
the power it takes to resist a woman's
tightly drawn corset or to keep the blood
flowing through the soles of the feet while
standing, or even to resist, the pressure of
the air on the body, which is over 1000
pounds on every square foot of the body's
whole surface. We. this electric principle
furnishes power for all that without any
strain whatever.
True Function of the Heart.
The function of the heart instead of pro-
polling the blood is the reverse; that is, to
regulate and not to propel the blood; but
to hold this electrified fluid in check-other-
wise it would circulate too fast to perform
it's life-work: Just as the regulator of an
engine regulates it's rotation, although the
engineer always keeps an extra reserve of
steam that he can turn on at will; the ma
chinery works with the same evenness
unless the steam gets below its needed
amount-then the whole machinery begins
to slacken; So with the sgstern-a good sup
ply of reserve energy should be kept on
hand, which of course, is generated by the
combined functions, and when used up grad
ual exhaustion follows.
If you want to labor hard with brain OF
1 muscles, and without exhaustion or in
= jury, breathe abundantly of good and pure
. air, which contains thednorrnal amount OF
I, oxygen, for it is only oxygen that is taker
up in the blood. 1t is the invigorator OF
life and all functions of the body. Nature
= has no panacea like it, for as fire goe!
-. down with the scarcity Of oxygen and goes
out when it disappears, SO the fire of lf,
G goes out as its supply diminishes and dealt
= follows when it disappears, showing tina
S oxygen is more Indispensable to life. thar
$ any other, for we can live longer withou
l oot vi any VI Nv cNLS NNNo.ai u u III
t but it should always be taken in the form
of pure ART is rarely of any benefit wher
S artificially taken.
S From the foregoing we see that breathint
S rightly promotes every life capacity ant
r function, and we should attend more tt
i breathing than to eating; yet many breathe
. so little that the heavingn of the chest il
scarcely perceptible, that it almost seem:
. as If too lazy to breathe deeply when it i!
so important to health and so cheap, ant
r most of us might live many times faster ant
better by redoubling our breathing. Mos
. men and nearly all women breathe wholly
. with their ribs, due largely by suspendint
; their apparel from their hips by band:
o which press just below the diaphragm, t.
d prevent it's easy"dewlfT ward motion. Al
. apparel of men, women and children shoult
s hang from the shoulders, not hips. Mos
1 women, by noticing their own chests, will
o see that their breath goes down only fv'
or six inches, while every breath SHOULD
e move their whole chest; in other words
e fill the lungs full at every breath. No
one person in a thousand fills his lungs a
e full and steady while awake as when asleep
r but If they did they would improve thei
S health and vitality a hundred fold. 1t /
when asleep that most of us breathe as W
e should when awake.
e How 1T Helps the Doctor.
e This fact, then, to know the real powe
that propels the blood, is of more valu
& and Importance to all human beings, an
a all yet to be born, than any physiological
question brought out for centuries. 1t /
as we'll of as much importance to the ply
sicians in the information it gives ther
,e in diagnosing and treating disease. 1t tell
lie him why in diphtheria the breathing
Sc slow and the pulse feeble and sluggish
&c
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