Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating / by William Anthony Spinney.

  • Spinney, William Anthony.
Date:
[1907, ©1906]
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Credit: Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating / by William Anthony Spinney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    and felt. This alternation of pressure and re- laxation induces the opening and closing of the pores throughout the body. This is an assist- ant respiration. It helps efficient elimination through perspiration, sensible and insensible. This also adds to the vitality of the body when bathing is impossible. Diaphragmatic breathing tends to equalize the positive and negative electrical condition of the body, to bring poise. Abdominal obesity is removed and prevented by this way of breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing puts more oxygen into the system than rib breathing does and exercises the obese abdominal region. It thus can oxidize the surplus fat. Undue obes- ity in any part of the body is favorably acted upon. Constipation and indigestion can in this way be banished. The lower and upper lobes of the lungs are aroused to full work, upper chest development follows, and a more erect bodily attitude is assumed, which gives of itself encouragement. Bronchitis and asthma are relieved, cured. Expectoration ceases as all the lung air-cells