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Breathe Pure Air

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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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Breathe pure air always. In the luiigs a inost important physiological prooess occurs. It is frorn here that the blood laden with oxygen is sent to all parts of the body, giviug off along its course its oxygen and taking up carbonic acid gas, which it brings at last to the lungs, when it is cast out in expiration. More oxygen is taken in by inspiration and the same process is repeated. So let your breathing be f uil and deep, going to the very bottom of the lungs iii order that all of the blood in them may receive its full amount of oxygen before again starting upon its tour of distribution through the body. Can one use any more f orcible argument in favor of loose clothing than this? It is absolutely impossible to secure plenty of oxygen if the clothing is worn at all tight, and oxygen is a food which the body must have always in abuadance to keep well. The air leaving the lungs is laden with that deadly poison carbonic acid gas, which if given off in a close room when no provisiĆ³n is made for its escape and the entrance of pure air soon renders the air utterly unfit to breathe. Perhaps some night you will find yourself unable to sleep and tumble restlessly about in bed. When this occurs, go to an open window and inhale the f resh air, breathing slowly and deeply. A few minutes of this and you can return to bed and probably "svill soon be sleeping quietly. What has happened? By its restlessness the body was asserting its need of more oxygen. Now you have given it what it so emphatically asked for, and it is quiet. We get as much uneasiness and disturbance from the want of this food as when we do not eat enough, only the symptoms are not so well understood nor recognized so quickly. Always keep your mouth closed and breathe through your nose. Then the air is warmed, slightly moistened and largely freed from particles of dust, so that when it enters the lungs it does not irritate them. A condition often met with by physicians is anaemia. In this trouble the patiĆ«nt is pale, lifeless looking, tired and generally used up, often without being able to teil distinctly how she does feel. Sometimes these patients say that they have not enough blood. It ia really only an element of the blood which is wanting, but that is a very important one- namely, the red blood corpuscle. When you know that it is only those corpuscles which have the power to take up and carry oxygen, you see at once how important it is that the blood should not be lacking in them. Good, wholesome food, plenty of it and well digested will give you the corpuscles. Furnish them with the oxygen and the body will have an important element toward health. - What to Eat.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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