HOLDS BREATH FOR FOURTEEN MINUTES.
STUDENT SETS WORLD'S RECORD
MIDDLETOWN (Conn.), Aug- 16. A Wesleyan senior, Earl L. Gaylor, of Cliftondale, Mass., has established a new Avorld's record by holding his breath for fourteen minutes and two .seconds. The previous record was for ten minutes and ten seconds and was made at the University of California 'in 1916.
Professor Edward L. Schneider, of the Biology Department at Wesleyan, vouches for the authenticity of the test. He declares that a graphic record of chest and diaphragm motion over the entire period showed that at no time could air have been taken into the lungs.
Oxygen was used by Mr Gaylor in preparing for the test. He first breathed excessively over a short period in order to rid the blood of carbon dioxide. He then took three deep breaths of oxygen, the last of which he held for the record time.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1927, Page 6
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