Show DR malburn TELLS HOW A PUNY BOY BECAME A STRONG MAN how to breathe how a bund mau ae san care for varuno baalu story of man who was an chua bom apparently into the lap of consumption blind and sickly at twenty one weak aed feeble at thirty civet the picture of health at threescore aad benl it reada like a patent ms dicino advertisement ti but it is the story of the rev dr milburn the noted blind chaplain of the house of representatives the blind parson told it in a voice as strong as that of a boy said he for fifteen years I 1 of the most fragile of men yon can imagine I 1 had to hold a book at the end of my nose with my hand above to shade tho page and by moving the book continuously along I 1 managed by seeing one letter at a time to read and to my way through school and college the result was that when a very young man I 1 found myself afflicted with curvature of the spine a curvature of the breast bone and a disease of the heart and there seemed absolutely no prospect of my ever becoming a healthy man 1 I was alao extremely delicate and when between nineteen and thirty five years old my weight ranged from to pounds I 1 was working hard however all this time and paying attention to all sorts of things except the eswa of health and life I 1 went to england when thirty four and got some hints from there in those days very little attention was paid to hygiene and after returning I 1 began to put into practice what I 1 had learned and ever since that time I 1 have increased in weight and size I 1 my chest measure twelve inches and my weight from fifty to sixty pounds my weight increased steadily from the time I 1 was thirty five and yon will be surprised to know that this was done without my ever going into a gymnasium or adopting any of the practices which are prescribed for such purpose HOW TO 1 could only use the meada within the reach of a blind man and on of the principal means of my liia and weight which I 1 adopted was air taking a larger and larger into the lungs I 1 have cultivated breathing as the basis of life so that now I 1 sap pose I 1 can inhale and exhale aa large a quantity of atmosphere as any living man that is the secret of the development of physique to take into your lungs the whole amount of air which your lungs are intended to receive and that is in the case of a man of fair chest proportions cubic inches the well built men in this country do not take in inches the first thing you do when you awake in the morning be ure you have a current of fresh air passing through your room remove the heavy bedclothes from your person leaving only a sheet over you lie as nearly flat aa you can draw up the knees and relax the muscles of the abdomen then with your mouth closed and your chin raised in order to relieve all constraint about your breast draw in all he air you can without violence doing it gradually and without painful effort hold the air as long as you can and breathe it out through the mouth or nose in the former case with effort close your lips aa soon as all is out and practise doing all your inhalations through your nostrils never under any circumstances inhaling through the mouth 1 I would rather drink the water left in a finger bowl at the close of a white house dinner than to take in one spoonful of washington air through my mouth do this breathing while in bed in the morning for five or ten minutes this has been my constant habit for a number of years AIR AND EXERCISE air is my first prescription continued dr the sun is my next 1 often walk about with my hat off in the sun and it was a practice of goethe to do this for an hour at noon he said it stimulated hia intellect and that there was a vital and quickening power in the suns rays thirty years ago I 1 began to be bald my father and younger brother were as bald as the palm of your hand when they were forty but I 1 told them when they informed me that I 1 was getting bald that I 1 would never be so I 1 had resolved to prevent it and I 1 did I 1 never wear a hat when I 1 can help it and I 1 am not aa barefooted today on the top of my head as I 1 was in 1860 I 1 wash my hair whenever I 1 wash my face and hands 1 I have a muscular exercise a light dumbbell exercise dr milbem went on and have often used indian clubs and in addition have some gymnastic movements for the arms chess legs etc As to the massage treatment I 1 suppose I 1 am the most expert massage operator in this country and I 1 am also the best groomed animal in this respect immediately after getting out of bed I 1 take a cold tepid or warm bath and rub down vigorously and I 1 spend from one to two hours every day in grooming my venerable carcass 1 I used to be brought constantly in contact with henry ward Beech erand other prominent characters of large physique thirty yeara or so ago and they were always bantering me about my small vitality why dont yon laugh and grow fat they would say well I 1 would reply 1 I laugh enough but dont know how to grow fat since I 1 have changed my plan of life I 1 have buried them all 1 I use horsehair mats in rubbing down he continued and then pat on vaseline or oil and rub into all parts of my body the oil taken up by the faida in this way is as good aa food and it keeps the cuticle in excellent condition this use of oil was common among the greeks and romans and yon will find it among many savage tribes ington cor new boric world |