Word: diaphragms
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...stop working, Dr. Frank Cecil Eve of Hull, England, is recommending a marvelously simple method which he recently devised. He straps the patient on a stretcher, places the stretcher on a trestle, rhythmically teeters the stretcher up & down. The weight of the patient's viscera alternately pushes the diaphragm up & down, forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just as well as a pivoted stretcher...
...stand correctly, to breathe so that the diaphragm region under the lower unfixed ribs expands while the first lumbar vertebra protrudes, to cultivate an open throat-unless a pupil has learned these fundamentals at least, no capable, conscientious vocal teacher will turn him loose on the musical market. A singer should make sure that his palate is arched, his tongue slightly grooved, the back wall of his throat visible, his upper lip free...
...lungs are expanded because the ribs rise & fall and the diaphragm ascends & descends. The muscles which operate the ribs and diaphragm are controlled, through the agency of nerves, by the respiratory centre in the lower brain, which needs carbon dioxide for stimulation. (Infantile paralysis often injures the spinal cord nerves which go to muscles used in respiration. In certain cases the injured nerves may regenerate, while the victim's life is maintained in a respirator...
...Cincinnati's radio station WLW there works a smallish, bespectacled man of 55 who plays the great tuba without ever huffing, puffing or straining himself red for breath. He is James Austin Houston, only U.S. tubaman who, despite mediocre diaphragm development, can perfectly sustain a note for 20 measures, make tuba music which could be represented graphically by a long, unbroken line instead of by telegraphic dots and dashes. Last week Tubaman Houston's secret became known: He uses a German wind-saving contrivance called an "aerophor" which cost...
...photographs revealed that the heart of Paavo Nurmi, Finnish distance runner, is three times normal size- which, in an ordinary person, would indicate grave disease. The Nurmi heart requires so much room to work in that it makes a quarter turn each time the diaphragm pushes up in respiration...