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...course training has developed more than any one in his class. His gains have been: In height, 1 1-2 in.; chest, 2 in.; calf, 1 in.; 'biceps, 1 1-2 in.; forearm, 34 in.; breadth of shoulders, 1 1-4 in; and in the capacity of lungs, 40 cubic in. Three men have given up the use of tobacco during the year, but many have taken up the habit, making the smokers 5 per cent in excess of what they were last year...
...extra sleep. Too much sleep is injurious, and must be gauged according to the individual. Ventilation is of vital importance in sleeping-rooms, as the maximum amount of carbonic dioxide that air can contain without fatal results is 1-1,000, and in one night we inhale about five cubic feet of this poisonous...
...third times as much. When walking at the rate of four miles an hour, fives times as much. When walking at the rate of six miles an hour, seven times as much. The increase is shown, perhaps, in a more striking way by Parker, estimating the different amounts in cubic inches. The flow of blood through the lungs is much less rapid when one takes little or no exercise; and the carbonic acid will not be removed from the system in so thorough a manner. If a man then is obliged to lead a life which deprives...
Vital capacity is the volume of air which a man can expel from his lungs after making the deepest inspiration of which he is capable. The vital capacity of a men 5 feet 8 inches tall is 230 cubic inches, a variation of 16 per cent. either way is the limit of health...
...that the idea that rowing did not enlarge the respiratory power was an erroneous one, as a man who rows three miles at the top of his speed takes in eight times as much air as one in a recumbent position. There is always in the chest a hundred cubic inches of air; an ordinary respiration takes in about thirty, a deep one a hundred, and the maximum amount of air which one's chest can contain at a time is three hundred and thirty cubic inches. By the use of diagrams the functions of the heart and lungs...