Every-day wonders of bodily life / by Anne Bullar.

  • Anne Bullar
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
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Credit: Every-day wonders of bodily life / by Anne Bullar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    presently. First think what is the use of it. If there? were really nothing at all in this room, yon would die andi I should die ; we should all drop down dead. The air is3 good to keep us alive. God made it for this purpose.. Several light substances are mixed together to make the?1 air, and if one of them were taken away from the rest, I we should die. How does the air keep us alive ? Do we eat it ? No, J we can see the things we eat. Do we drink it ? No, we? can see the things we drink. We feed on air oftener than we eat or drink. We i must eat and drink several times a day, but not everyr moment; hut we must feed on air every moment,. that is, we must breathe; breathing is feeding on ah*.. Now when we eat we do not like to eat dirty andl unwholesome food. We should not like to eat clayd mixed with our bread. But many people who would not: mix unwholesome things with what they eat and drink,, feed on what is unwholesome by breathing, without know-- * 1, Lungs, with windpipe. 2, Diagram of tlie termination of the bronchial tubes in air-cells. l Fig. 2.* ing what they are3 about. I will tell] you the use of; good wholesome air. Inside the up- per part of yourr body, you have' two things called 1 lungs. They are: something like a