The next in importance of the great health agencies is Fresh Air
June 20th, 2008
The next in importance of the great health agencies is Fresh Air.
Perhaps we ought to class it as the most important, for although
people have been known to live for days without water, yet without air
their hours would be quickly numbered. Air is a vital necessity to the
human organism, and the fresher the better–it cannot be too fresh. The
oxygen gas in the air is the vitalizing element. The blood corpuscles
when they enter the lungs through the capillaries are charged with
carbonic acid gas (which is a deadly poison), but when brought into
contact with the oxygen, for which they have a wonderful affinity,
they immediately absorb it, after ejecting the carbonic acid gas. The
oxygen is at once carried to the heart, and by that marvelous pumping
machine sent bounding through the arteries to contribute to the animal
heat of the body.
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