The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
USE YOUR DIAPHRAGM TO HELP YoUT
 HEART

| One of the characteristic symptoms of shock. | perhaps the most obvious indication in the l eyes of the casual observer, is the shallow breathing of the victim. At first sight M aI- most seems breathing has ceased until perhaps life. 0e'''
 As significant as the failing pulse and the sinking consciousness toward the end of any | exhausting illness is the depression lowering | of the breathing
 It is a well known fact that form of 'spneu- monia' is likely to develop and carry the vic- tim off after rescue from submersion, from ex- posture to cold, from prolonged deprivation all of which ordinarily produce extreme ex- hauston or vital depression. The popular ex- planaton of this, based on antiquated medical theories. is that the victim has taken cold, and developed pneumonia. But such notion does not suffice for the scientific investigator for the pneumonia" in such cases is not an infammatory condition at all, but rather a stagnation of blood in the lower portions of the lungs. Precisely the same mechanical stagnaton of blood in the bases or deepest portions of the chest cavity, called by physi- clans "hypostatic congestion' is the usual ter. minal condition noted by examination in most prolonged fatal illnesses.
 Psychologists ascribe this stagnation of blood In the lower chest region to weakening of the force which drives the blood from the veins back into the right side of the heart and on through the lungs to the left side of the heart This force is called venous pressure It seems to be chiefly the effect of the pressure or squeezing of the muscles throughout the body
 
 ward the heart. Hence the general muscular tone" or vigor and resilency determines the state of the circulation. Particularly import ant is the tone of the muscles of the front abdominal wall (belly) and the diaphragm.
 Physicians have always relied on strychnn to serve as a stimulant in these conditions of great vital depression. Strychnin is a powerful stimuant to the contraction of muscle throughout the body. But even mere effective in such emergencies is the recently developed remedy, carboxygen-that is, mixture of from to 10 per cent, of carbon dioxid with oxygen administered by inhalation. Carbon dioxide stimulates deep and forceful breathing, even in the unconscious this deeper and more viz orous action of the belly muscles and dia- phragm pumps more blood back from the veins, into the right side of the heart, and the heart itself responds to the increased volume of return flow by pumping the blood more vigorously through the lungs. Thus congestion or stagnation or "hypostatc pneumonia" may strength is in part restored, when the danger will be over.
 Take hint from the lesson in physiology Give your own circulation a boost by practfc- ing belly breathing exercise for minute or so at least every night when you're relaxing for sleep.
 E. E. Opposes Stagnation
 I have always been troubled with constipa- tion. Your Belly Breathing exercises have proved worth gold mine to me. co. O
 Answer-The chief purpose of the breathing exercise Is to aid the circulation by preventing stagnation of blood in the upper abdomen and
 
 of the liver. gall-sac and intestines Readers who wish to practice Belly Breathing please ask for the instructions and inclose stamped addressed envelope.
 We Must Have the Ads wish your articles might have a more im- portant place fin the paper, instead of being Hidden away among tho ads and odds and ends Of trif1ing moment. e. F. M.)
 Answer-Naturally, do, too but we could mt have place in the paper were it not for the ads. you know. Then, too. some ads must have 'pure reading natter next them and my stuff is about as pure as a paper can print
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 Maybe you think I didn't just whoop for joy reading your article advocating the daily use of plain wheat in the menu. had been eating --'s wheat for months and have been laughed at by my family and even by our physician For a while stopped for the sake of my nursing baby. but craved 1t much, and finally began eating 1t again. the whole, uncookcd wheat. which I love to chew. The very first day after resumed cat ing 1t the baby went to sleep after his nurs- ing (Mrs F. q. S.) Answer-I hope the wheat you eat is Undoc- toreS wheat. It is silly to pay premium to anybody for putting trade name or label on wheat
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