Weak Lungs, And How to Make Them Strong: Or Diseases of the Organs of the Chest, With Their Home ...
Weak Lungs, And How to Make Them Strong: Or Diseases of the Organs of the Chest, With Their Home ...
Dio Lewis
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T\iQ fashionable %tj\Q of dress does not secure free circulation ; hence cold hands and feet, and a general loss of vitality. ^^Th^ present style of dress compresses the lungs till they are scarcely more than one-half their natural size, and have less than half their natural action. Of course, they cannot absorb sufficient oxygen to keep the body warm. This, witli the almost complete nudi- ty of the arms and legs, produces a feeble and irregu- lar circulation. These errors are bo common that yo...u may 'ask the fashionably dressed ^vomen of the country, if they have warm feet, and nine out of ten will reply, **0h, they arc never warm, except when by the fire." As a result of these cold cxtreinitict*, the blood is 14 158 CONSUMPTION. driven to the head and chest, csiusmg frequent head- ache and palpitation of the heart. '* A headache is so common among our fashionable women, that it is considered vulgar to be always and entirely free from it. Women, a. few generations back, had no such fashion.
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