How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his weight, and every pound of excellent stuff, was in itself no light thing; and there are thousands of men in our land to-day who would be delighted to make an equally great addition to their general size and strength, even in twice the period. To add five whole inches of chest, and nearly thaf much of lung and heart room and stomach room, and the consequent greater capacity for all the vital organs, is a matter, to many men, of almost immeasurable value. Hear Dr. Morgan, in his English “ University Oars,’^ on this point: An addition of three inches to the circumference of the chest implies that the lungs, instead of con- taining 250 cubic inches of air, as they did before their functional activity was exalted, are now capable of receiving 300 cubic inches within their cells : the value of this augmented lung accom- modation will readily be admitted. Suppose, for example, that a man is attacked by inflammation of the lungs, by pleurisy, or some one of the varied forms of consumption, it may readily be conceived that, in such an emergency, the pos- session of enough lung tissue to admit forty or fifty additional cubic inches of air will amply sufflco to turn the scale on the side of recovery. It assists a patient successfully to tide over the critical stage of his disease.'’^ A man, then, of feeble lungs— the consumptive, for instance—taken early in
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