The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-14
BENEFIT OF
DEEP BREATHING
TENDENCY TO TUBERCULOSIS
CAN Sc OVERCOME BY THIS
SIMPLE HABIT.

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and inculcates strict personal eleanli-
ness among them all, they are pretty
well along on the road to health, but
there are few things still to be done.
They must not only have plenty of
fresh air to breathe. but they must
breathe it-breathe it down deep into
their lungs. OF course, we all know
that We are more or less degenerates
physically. We are always being told
that our eyesight, our hearing, our
running ability and our power of en-
durance of heat and cold does not
compare with the same faculties in
the ordinary savage-and we believe
it, We also are told that long resi-
dence in houses has restricted our
breathing capacity. Little by little
for hundreds of years, those who have
not engaged in hard bodily exercise
have given up breathing with the
whole lungs. We use just as little of
them as we can. The consequence is
that the lower part of the lungs of
most sedentary people are more or
less atrophied. and are helpless
against attacks of germs like tuber-
culosis.
The remedy is a habit of deep
breathing. Shut the mouth, draw in
the air slowly and deeply, hold 1t until
every branchlet of the lung is well
supplied-then expire it slowly. Some
authorities say expel it rapidly.
Either way works we'll
This sort of a breath should be
taken every ten minutes or so all day
long, especially while outdoors. But
don't wait to go out. Take your deep
breaths, whatever air you are in, I'M
less it happens to be that of crowd
ed car or hall Then one draws in so
much poison with the rest that he had
better breathe as lightly as possible.
Not too many deep breaths should
be taken together. More than three
or four at a time may cause giddiness,
owing to the great quickening of the
circulation.
A distinguished Brooklyn writer
and lecturer was cured of tendency
to tuberculosis by deep breathing,
and never fails to enlarge upon its adj
vantages whenever he has an oppor-
tunity He insists that any one who
will take fifty deep breaths each day
will never have a cold nor any of
those terrible diseases which usually
result from a cold-like pneumonia,
bronchitis, lumbago, sciatica, and so
on.
Another well-known Brooklyn lee
turer who lost his voice had it restor-
ed to him, greatly strengthened and
improved, by deep breathing.
An old gentleman who had hard
cold all winter, and who had coughed
himself nearly into tatters, met a
friend in the early spring who gave
him serious lecture upon deep
breathing
Now it will not cure your cold"
he concluded, but it will surely help
you not to get another If you would
only do it-but you won't. l have told
scores and hundreds Of people about
it-and | presume less than a dozen
have ever followed my advice in the
matter!'
The following June he met the old
gentleman, apparently well and in
high spirits.
"You told me-" he began with in
terest, as soon as he saw his friend,
that deep breathing wouldn't cure a
cold-but 1t did cure mine in two
days-and | haven't coughed since.
You told me that one good way was to
take three long breaths and then wait
half an hour and take more-and so
on. | did just that--and this cold,
which had been packed in cold water
-for--and In hot water--asnd had been been
plastered and fomented for-and had
taken all sorts of patent medicine for
all yipter long---;w,ent ldoyFr IbF .fl'Gpre
deep breathing like frost before the
sun. believe have got hold of
good thing"
It is no fad--no passing notion. 1t
is simply the normal, honest way of
treating our lungs. Those who pooh
pooh at II show themselves lacking in
sense and ENTHUSIASTICALLY Eagle.