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we are fast developing into a race of consumptive and nervous wrecks 

 Every infant born naust fight its way in life against the fearful odds of 

 vitiated and non-electrified air; under those conditions thousands of them 

 perish before they even taste the first fruits of happy childhood with its 

 open-air life. 



Go into the crowded theaters and churches, you will find them a hot-bed 

 of disease and corruption, all on account of a lack of air. People crowd 

 together, breathing over and over again the devitalized air — and then they 

 wonder why they feel so stupid, why they take cold so easily. If the doctors 

 and ministers of the world would only teach the people the value of fresh 

 air, they would indeed be teaching the laws of life. 



Everywhere we can see the great necessity of proper electrification of the 

 blood, and its influence upon the health and harmony of the individual. It 

 is obvious that the system will not receive its proper supply of energy, and 

 the whole organism will suffer in consequence, if the atmosphere is poor or 

 devitalized. 



For example, let us take a case of carbon-monoxide poisoning. Here we 

 have carbon instead of oxygen passing into the lungs, and what action 

 should we expect? The carbon of the gas meets the carbon and hydrogen 

 excreted by the lungs; now these molecules are repellant, or dia-magnetic to 

 each other, consequently molecular rearrangement can not occur and no 

 electro-chemic energy results. Gradually the carbon ceases to be excreted 

 by the lungs, venous blood remains unchanged and passes into the arteries, 

 making a few circuits, and is found as such when the post-mortem is made 

 by the coroner. In his mistaken diagnosis, he believes that the carbon has 

 passed from the carbon mon- oxide gas by osmosis and has formed a union 

 with hemoglobin, but the real action which takes place is the union between 

 unexcreted carbon of venous blood and hemoglobin. The reason for this 

 union is because the blood fails to gain its supply of electric energy from the 

 atmosphere; the moment this supply ceases there is nothing to prevent the 

 elements having attraction for each other within the blood stream from 

 uniting. 



The lungs are the all-important center of physical life; their motion is 

 synchronous with that of the brain. "Man does not live by bread alone," 

 he may exist for weeks without food, for a less time without fluid, but if he 

 is deprived of air and of that necessary energy which he gains from breath- 

 ing it, he dies within a very few moments. 



Notice the horse, as he draws a heavy load, his dilated nostrils show his 

 struggle for breath. Give him a few moments to catch his wind, and he 

 lifts the load to the brow of the hill. Observe the athlete, when performing 

 feats of strength, see how he pauses to renew his vital energy by deep-drawn 

 breaths; watch his chest rise and fall, as the air rushes to and from the 



