SOME HEALTH HINTS by O. C. Godsmark

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1893

SOME HEALTH HINTS.

By O. C. Godsmark

BY ELDER O. C. GODSMARK.

BREATHE PROPERLY.

MUCH of the trouble arising from colds and catarrhal tendencies may be avoided by paying some attention to the kind of air we breathe, and the manner in which we breathe it.

The structure of the air passages leading from the nostrils to the lungs is such as to purify the air from much of the dust and disease germs found therein, and also to warm the air before reaching the delicate tissues of the lungs. When we breathe through the mouth, the air, whether cold or warm, comes in direct contact with the thin membrane of the lungs, subjects it to the extreme changes of the temperature in which we chance to be, thus producing the inflamed conditions so common with many during the winter season. By neglecting to breathe through the nostrils these organs become not only diseased, but so far deformed and closed that we find it a tiresome task to breathe as we should.