Rhythmic breathing plus olfactory nerve influence on respiration.

  • Noble, Emily, 1866-
Date:
1908
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Credit: Rhythmic breathing plus olfactory nerve influence on respiration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To-day—only fifty years later—Dr. Osier writes, ''Search the scriptures of human achievement and you cannot parallel in beneficence Anesthesia, Sanitation, with all that it includes, and Asepsis—a short half century's contribution toward the practical solution of the problems of human suffering, before regarded as eternal and insoluble. Although the inventions and discoveries of modern date are stupendous in their mag- nitude and profound in their depth, too little is yet known of the laws which govern the finer forces of Nature. There is no limit to human possibilities, but even for the most vital among us the span of life is very short, and we should welcome any rational method for the allevia- tion of pain and the possibility of prolonging the days of human existence. If the seeds that have been sown by this Crusade (in the interests of which this book is offered to the public) take root, correct respiration and nasal hygiene will become a national habit in the near future. It was Priestley who discovered that at- mospheric oxygen possessed the property of converting venous into arterial blood. La-