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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 7.

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THE Literary Digest copies the following excellent instruction from Dr. J. H. Kellogg, in Good Health for December, while, almost identically, the same language is used in the Sunday Examiner, of San Francisco, of the 7th inst., and attributed to Henry D. Bartlett, M. D., "Consulting Physician of the Hospital for Consumptives [where?]." We quote from each of these journals, in parallel columns:—
(From Dr. Kellogg, in Good Health.)
(From Dr. Bartlett, in the Examiner.)
Cold, fresh air has special value because it stimulates the organs and all the functions of the body; it quickens the heart to the greatest activity, and increases the number of red corpuscles in the blood. Cold air also contains more oxygen to the cubic inch than does warm air. The volume of air is reduced one-five-hundredth part for each degree in reduction in temperature. Consider the difference between a hot summer day with a temperature of 100° and a winter day at 30°. Even a moderately cold winter day marks a difference of 70°. So the air has been reduced one-seventh of its volume, and in six breaths of cold air one gets as much oxygen as he would in seven breaths of warm air.
Cold, fresh air stimulates the organs and all the functions of the body; it quickens the heart to the greatest activity, and increases the number of red corpuscles in the blood. Cold air also contains more oxygen to the cubic inch than does warm air. The volume of air is reduced one-five-hundredth part for each degree in reduction in temperature. Consider the difference between a hot summer day with a temperature of 90° and a winter day at 30°. Even a moderately cold winter day marks a difference of 60°. So the air has been reduced one-seventh of its volume, and in six breaths of cold air one gets as much oxygen as he would in seven breaths of warm air.
And so it runs on for four hundred words more, almost or quite identical. The article which the Digest quotes from Dr. Kellogg contains two paragraphs which the other does not. Now we would like to quote a part or the whole of the excellent instruction for the benefit of our readers; but we desire always to give proper credit. Who is the author?