LUNG BATHS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43083, 23 April 1907, Page 4

LUNG BATHS.

According' to the recent dictum of an eminent physician, “our lungs, quite as well as our bodies, need baths.’ Especially do they need a. 'bath after •we have sat for three or four hours in the impure and stale air of a beatre o.r a church. Then, if ■we could j' •jee theim, our lungs would look as unsightly as the face of a coal-heaver looks after a hard day’s work “They need a baith, but niot a water one. 'Air, pure air, is the cleanser of the lungs, and to bathe them the head should be thrown back, and through the nostrils pure, fresh an* should he inhaled till the lungs are distended to their utmost limit. About twtenty five of the deepest possible ‘lung-fuls’ of pure air should be slowly inhaled and-exhaled. Then the pure air .rushes like a torrent through all 'this, dusty crannies and hidden, grimy comers of the lungs, and it carries out with .it every impurity. After a long sitting in a theatre’s stale air, try a lung bath. You will be amazeed to find how it will cheer and strengthen you.”