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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    macliiue/^ where you empty your luugs of about all that is in them, but on an inspirometer, from which instead you inhale every inch of air you can, and by practising vigorous w'orking of his diaphragm, he had so expanded his lungs that he could inhale three hundred and eighty cubic inches of air at one breath ! Certainly the depth of his chest at the later period was something astounding, it being, as nearly as we could judge w'ithout calipers, all of fourteen inches through, directly from breastbone to spine, while it was a strikingly broad chest as well. But an even more astonishing feature was the tremendous power of his voice. He said that at the end of half an hour’s public singing with the opera singers (for he was skilled at that), while they would be hot and perspiring, he was only just warmiug up and getting ready for his work. One thing all who ever heard him sing would quickly concede, namely, that seldom had they anywhere heard so immense a voice as his. He said that he had also run two blocks in one breath. He looked about the farthest remove from a consumptive— a short, stout, fat man, rather. Now the indoor chest work above recommended, and the steady and vigorous daily outdoor work, all aiming to deepen and strengthen the lungs, are well-nigh sure to bring decidedly favourable
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