The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-23
USE YOUR BOOSTER PUMP TO

USE YOUR BOOSTER PUMP TO
 HELP YOUR CIRCULATION
 What is the significance of high blood pressure? To listen to the complaints about it one might think 1t were @ disease or Q disability. Long distance diagnosis of course is not worth much, but in my time I've actually examined some pa- tients in person and of these ap- proximately 50 per cent, or if you insist on concrete facts say one of them didn't have high blood pres- sure although that was his own no- ton of what ailed him. So, on actual experience, I estimate that at least half of the poor misguided creatures who complain of their high blood pressure" are actually suffering from chronic congestion of the imagination with thick-com- ing fancies, morbid fancies, fancies out of quack doctor bait. Some times think 1t would be better for health if we could return to the good old almanac days when the quacks wholeheartedly devoted themselves to purifying the suckers blood and didn't go too deeply into the tech- nical details. This high blood pres- sure phobia the modern charlatans have instilled into the minds of wiseacre readers is quite as injur- ious as the now waning "auto- intoxication" obsession, and just as obdurate. I fused and fumed for a good ten years before any appre- ciable number of victims of the autointoxication or "autotoxicosis" swindle would even listen; I expect the average victim of the high blood pressure fancy who happens to read this will dismiss it as another ex- ample of the queer behavior of the conductor of this alleged health column.
 There are practically only two types or habits of breathing, chest breathing and belly breathing. The natural way is belly breathing, for that's the way you breathe when asleep or unconscious or narcotized by an anesthetic. Chest breathing is unnatural, artificial, cultivated under @ misconception of fund.- amental physiology. From gener- ations of precept and example most of us consciously endeavor to breathe with the chest when we give any attention or thought to breathing, and this constant toy- soldering interferes with the eftl- ciency of breathing.
 Now 1t is merely my theory or mo- ton, based on thinking between the lines of what real doctors and physi- ologists write and say, that our arti- ficially cultivated chest breathing habit is a considerable factor of dis eases of the lungs, notably pneu- monia and tuberculosis. On the other hand I believe the regular practice of Belly Breathing may be a considerable factor in the preyen- ton of these diseases. Just or Doc Brady having one of his pipe dreams. Skip 1t If you feel satisfied you know more about such things than do; most wiseacres do-thats what makes them what they are.
 In order to understand what were talking about, think of the dia- phragm, the main breathing muscle, as a tarpaulin stretched across the great body cavity between thorax (chest) and abdomen in the shape of an inverted saucer. When the diaphragm contracts 1t presses down on liver, stomach and intestines and causes belly to expand or bulge; at the same time air is drawn into the lungs. Get this clear in your head, for it is 8 healthful les- son in physiology: Inspiration, 1n- halation, taking in air; diaphragm contracts, presses down on abdom- inal organs, infiats or expands belly; lowers pressure in thorax or chest in consequence of which air enters the lungs; raises pressure in abdomen in consequence of which the circulation is aided as we shall see later.
 Roll On, Madam
 For three weeks I have been roll- ing about the floor as you suggested, but so far I have not reduced an ounce (Mrs. l.. O.
 Answer-Haven't you even learned to play the piccolo? After all. I have never suggested that rolling about the floor will remove super