Show MUSIC AS CURATIVE AGENT singing teaches correct breathing and lively waltzes havo have good effects on melancholia patients patient two physicians ol of prominence havo have recently asserted that the exercise giver given to the tha lungs in fit singing lit Is valuable in the prevention and cure of diseases of those organs they co consider n sider that increased prate professional es ional recognition should be extended to this special therapeutic agency as advisable in cases where pulmonary consumption to la feared singing involves correct nasal breathing and this means that the air admitted to the bo lungs Is in practically germ free and also the adequate development of the upper portions of nf the respiratory passages another effect fit in the he maintenance ot of the th elasticity and proper expansion of the chest chesl the necessary breathing exercises wean increased functional activity of the th lungs then there to IB the improved oxygenation of the blood which singing necess necessarily artlY promotes As we know most and also those musicians who perform on wind instruments are a healthy looking lot not many years from now music will be recognized an aa a most moat valuable vilu ablo cur active agent especially in cases of insanity or morbidity what tired overwrought distressed man or woman does not know the value of music masac how many beautiful stories could be told of the ho power of music to sustain and restrain one of the greatest scientists living has testified that he was once kept from rom thoughts of despair and suicide by suddenly hearing in the next house bouse someone melody in F in the croydon mental hospital london waltz music particularly tho bright mlis musical ical comedy pieces li 0 used in affecting a cure for melancholia patients |