The Art of Breathing.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 356, 5 March 1902, Page 3

The Art of Breathing.

(From the London Doctor.) It is perhaps one of the signs of the times to those alert for indications that the art of breathing has become more and more a subject of attention. Oculists as well as physiologists go deeply into its study in a way hardly to be touched upon here. Physicians have cured aggravated eases of insomnia by long-drawn, regular breaths ; fever-stricken patients have been quieted, stubborn forms of indigestion mado to disappear. A tendency to consumption may bo overcome, as some authority has within the past few years clearly demonstrated, by exercise in breathing. Seasickness too may be surmounted and the victim of hynotie influence taught to withstand the force of an enorgy directed against him. There is a famous physician of Munich who has written an extensive work upon the subject of breathing. He has besides formulated a system by which asthmatic patients are mado to walk without losing breath and cured. At Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol, his patients (almost every royal house of Europe is represented) are put through a certain system of breathing and walking. The mountain paths are all marked off with stakes of different colors, indicating the number of minutes in which a patient must walk the given distance, the breathing and walking being in time together. As the cure progresses the ascents are mado steeper and steeper.