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Chapter XV: Effect of Correct Breathing.1853
Chapter XV: Effect of Correct Breathing.
Scarcely too much can be said of the advantages attending the practice
of the Complete Breath. And yet the student who has carefully read
the foregoing pages should scarcely need to have pointed out to him such
advantages.
The practice of the Complete Breath will make any man or woman immune
to Consumption and other pulmonary troubles, and will do away with
all liability to contract “colds,” as well as bronchial and similar weaknesses.
Consumption is due principally to lowered vitality attributable to an
insufficient amount of air being inhaled. The impairment of vitality renders
the system open to attacks from disease germs. Imperfect breathing allows a
considerable part of the lungs to remain inactive, and such portions offer an
inviting field for bacilli, which invading the weakened tissue soon produce
havoc. Good healthy lung tissue will resist the germs, and the only way to
have good, healthy lung tissue is to use the lungs properly.
Consumptives are nearly all narrow-chested. What does this mean?
Simply that these people were addicted to improper habits of breathing,
and consequently their chests failed to develop and expand. The man
who practices the Complete Breath will have a full, broad chest, and the
narrow-chested man may develop his chest to normal proportions if he will