Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . capacity increases ordiminishes according to theheight of the average lung capacityof a man whose height isfive feet six inches is twohundred and ninety-six cu-bic inches, and that of asvoman the seme height:wo hundred and forty-four, making a differenceof fifty-two inches in favorof the male sex. Much ofthis is due not alone to sex, _=Jbut more especially to the Ijjllpernicious habit of tight 1~~: ~ „^A +U~ ,^„+ ^.f Tobolds Pneumatic Apparatus or iacmg and the ^ant ot
Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . capacity increases ordiminishes according to theheight of the average lung capacityof a man whose height isfive feet six inches is twohundred and ninety-six cu-bic inches, and that of asvoman the seme height:wo hundred and forty-four, making a differenceof fifty-two inches in favorof the male sex. Much ofthis is due not alone to sex, _=Jbut more especially to the Ijjllpernicious habit of tight 1~~: ~ „^A +U~ ,^„+ ^.f Tobolds Pneumatic Apparatus or iacmg and the ^ant ot spirometer. (Geo. tiemann & Co.)proper physical exercise in the open air, and under thehealthful rays of the sun—the great chemist and bloodmaker. The aged do not apply in these measurements;they can not breathe as much as those in the vigor andprime of life. The corpulent breathe less than thethin in flesh. Enlarged and diseased livers or heartswill also diminish the breathing capacity, even wherethe lungs are sound, as also a diseased stomach, es-pecially when distended with gas from 286 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF GENERAL DISEASES. PNEUMONIA—LUNG FEVER. Inflammation of one or both lungs, or only a partof the lung, is called single, double or lobular pneu-monia, according to the amount of lung tissue in-volved. It is caused from cold and wet, or from in-jury, idiopathic or traumatic. It usually commenceswith a chill, followed soon by fever, delirium and diffi-culty of breathing, with more or less pain and cough;vomiting is common with children. The patient be-gins to expectorate—spit up—the third day a matterusually mixed with blood, or rusty in appearance, asif the patient had been chewing some red height of the fever and severity of the disease isusually reached from the fifth to the seventh day, afterwhich, in favorable cases, the fever begins to one lobule of the lung, or only one lung is at-tacked, especially in young chil
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