Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal stables late in the evening, an old cream mare whinnied feebly, gasped for breath and died. She was Amazon Leader, last of the train of eight which had drawn George V to his Coronation 26 years before...
Inconsistency seems to be the breath of life for fair Harvard...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
Yogins have eight different ways of breathing. Most effective posture for breathing is the lotus. One sits crosslegged, spine and head erect, hands crossed palm-upward on the lap, eyes focused either at the tip or the root of the nose. Expert yogins hold their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...
Excerpt: "The pulse of the President fluctuated between 40 and 60 during the night, and varied in volume and force, sometimes being quite full and strong and then threadlike and feeble. . . . The wound ceased to bleed or discharge about 5:30 a. m. and from that time the breathing was stertorous, but gradually increased in frequency and decreased in strength up to the last breath, which was drawn at 21 minutes and 55 seconds after...