BREATHE AND BE WARM.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 August 1919, Page 2

BREATHE AND BE WARM.

I The importance of proper bx-eathmg for those who suffer froin cold is {illustrated b‘y Dr. Chas. J_ Hlll Ajtkjn. He \_vl-ites: “Last winter I Saw 3 33 man who told me he dreaded the com weather. He always kept Several pairs of boots going and “-01.8 Very thick socks, and iii them, he pluc(,L} felt sloes. DalillsJDoots and socks were a. horror to him. do said he was i-. 111 invalid and had a bad circulation. By chance my attention was drawn to his nose and I found his septum .31. Viding pal-t_l'tion) was defiected to tn,lefi: side. He I'BfllS€‘d an Opel-atj(~,3l_ I noticed his alae nasi (nostrils) not move, so 1. suggoSt-ed he slioulzjt practice nasal respiration. In a xveek ‘the action had become a.lltom;alic, am". he told me with rapture he had pass ed from invalidism to strengn. 1-19 found that he could wc;4.:' 1?1-;:"samg ‘pair of boots every day, and even do without socks. This later was a gl-out advantage, as it ‘?Ll\'('d him darning socks! He told me he noticed that on a cold day the air passing into his now opened—nostrils would send -his blood shooting to the tips of his toes and fingrers and acted like cliainpagne Cll his inintl. He said the cold\\'c:it}lr-1' he used to dread now acted as 21 tonic. and he I'c\7Z*lled in it. The only alteration in his manner in life that brought this change about was nasal respiration. which kept his nasal passage on left side patent.”