HOLDS BREATH FOR FOURTEEN MINUTES.

Shannon News, 30 September 1927, Page 1

HOLDS BREATH FOR FOURTEEN MINUTES.

STUDENT SETS WORLD’S RECORD

MIDDLETOWN (Conn.), Aug. 16. A Wesleyan senior, Earl L. Gaylor, of Ciiftondale, Mass., has established n new world’s record bv holding his breath for fourteen minutes and two seconds. The previous record was for ten minutes and ten seconds and was made at the University of California in 1916. Professor Edward L. Schneider, of the Biology Department at Wesleyan, vouches for tho authenticity of the test. He declares that a. graphic record of chest and diaphragm motion over the entire period showed that at no time could air have been taken into the lungs. Oxygen was used by Mr Gaylor in preparing for the test, lie first breathed excessively over a short period in order to rid the blood of carbon dioxide. He themtook three deep breaths of oxygen, the last of which he held for the record time.