24 HAY SEED, OR HOW TO 



the diaphragm. In forcible expiration the abdominal 

 muscles act with great power. It will be useless to take 

 much time to show that if an excessive deposit of fat 

 exists their. aid will be much diminished. Fat within the 

 chest is laid in layers beneath the serous coating, and 

 about the base of the heart. It materially affects the 

 breathing by encroaching on the pulmonary chamber, 

 and interfering with the expansion of the lungs, so that 

 the minute air cells can not be filled to the extent of their 

 capacity as thry can when freed from this obstruction. 

 If the heart is healthy, there is room within the pericar- 

 dium for all its motions, contraction and expansion not 

 being greatly restricted by the outside coating of fat. 

 But this coating t^oes affect the equalization or rythm 

 of the pulsations when the action is hurried, so it 

 becomes necessary to remove the obstruction here as 

 elsewhere. The change in the blood, from the time it 

 leaves the heart by the arteries till it is returned by the 

 veins, after having been aerated in the lungs, is a won- 

 derful provision of nature for it to obtain properties from 

 the atmosphere essential to the existence of life. 



The passage of the blood to the extremities of the 

 vessels that convey it, is accompanied in swjating by 

 another phenomenon, viz: the forcing the moisture 

 through the pores of the skin, which we call sweat. In 

 the evacuations from the bowels and kidneys there is 

 never a particle of fat, and the emaciation following purg- 

 ing or excessive stalling is not due to fat being carried 

 from the body directly, but to causes resulting therefrom. 

 In exudation, however, the oily part of the blood is got 

 rid of as well as the watery fluid that accompanies it. 

 You will perceive, when a horse takes his first sweats, the 

 moisture is of a thick, unctious nature, forming a lather 

 like soap when it meets with friction from the clothes or 

 harness. As the horse's body becoiies freed from impur- 

 ities, the sweat becomes thinner and cleaner, finally hav- 

 ing the appearance ot clean water as it trickles down his 

 legs. The skin, then appears to be the most direct way 

 of getting rid of the fat, and not only the most direct but 



