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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 13, 1867

EXPANDING THE LUNGS.—Step out into the purest air you can find; stand perfectly erect, with the head up, and the shoulders back, and then fixing the lips as though you were going to whistle, draw the air through the lips into the lungs. When the chest is about half full, gradually raise the arms, keeping them extended with the palms of the hands down, as you suck in the air, so as to bring them over the head just as the lungs are quite full. Then drop the thumbs inward, and after gently forcing the arms backward and the chest open, reverse the process by which you draw your breath, till the lungs are empty. This process should be repeated three or four times after bathing, and also several times through the day. It is impossible to describe to one who has never tried it, the glorious sense of vigor which follows this exercise. It is the best expectorant in the world. We know a gentleman, the measure of whose chest has been increased three or four inches during as many months.