FRESH AIR FOR LONG DIFFICULTIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 746, 17 February 1915, Page 7

FRESH AIR FOR LONG DIFFICULTIES.

The heart, brain, and lungs are ofiien called vital organs, because upon them, as upon a tripod, rests the lamp of life. Life is quickly extinguished if any one of these vital organs ceases to act. Virgil called the atmospheric air the votal air, because it is the channel through which the essential principle of life is conveyed to the blood; and again, the blood is called the river of life, because no part of the body can be long sustained without a proper cimuation of the blood To breathe well is to live well. How to breathe well and utilise the vital air is therefore the one important thing in lung difficulties. To know the nature and office of the' lungs and, their relation to the vital air and to the circulation of the blood, is to know the chief remedy for all lung complaints-. It is as unnecessary to name every symptom or varying condition of the lungs or body, as it is to measure and name the ' waves of the sea; all we need to know is the primal cause of the trouble, and how to remove it Pneumonia is only another name for what is called lung fever, or inflammation of the lungs. Inflammation signifies "inflame,'' or "on fire," and conveys almost as much meaning- to the common mind as to the learned medical expert the latter knows inflammation chiefly by its five symptoms of heat, pain, redness, swelling, and disturbance of function; and none of these, nor all together, are a sufficient guide to the proper remedy. , The ordinary medical expert assumes that the real cause of tuberculosis is a microscopic organism named by the profession, "tubercle bacillus." Having made his diagnosis he wages a deadly .warfare, ostensibly against the insignificant microbe, but really against the vitality of the patient. Now it is clear to the intelligent physiologist, who is not blinded by the pseudo-science of bacteriology, that what the patient really needs is more atmospheric air to air the blood in the lungs, and this-can be easily and readily obtained by his own voluntary effort. Asthma., colds, coughs, croup, and all lung difficulties' are sometimes cured and prevented by natural methods, without the use of drugs. To remove the cause is to cure the complaint. Why depend longer upon .drugs and dangerous methods, which from time immemorial have occasionally failed to perform what was promised? There is a sure cure in the atmospheric air which surrounds us every moment—the vital air.