To Cough Properly.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 92

To Cough Properly.

Few people know how to cough properly. It never occurs to the ordinary individual that there is a right way and a. wrong way of doing it. ''Yet it is a matter of no small importance. If every sigh means a drop of blood out of the heart, as~- people say, every cough means some greater or less proportion of time_ knocked on one's life. Most people cough as loudly'and forcibly as they can. But it is rather costly, noise, for the single reason that it tears and inflames the lungs. The longs consist' of i.n extraordinarily delicate sponge-like tissue, which sometimes gets inflamed and choked with phlegm. When we. try to geti rid of this substance wo cough. But obviously, if we remove it violently, we musti necessarily injure the delicate lung tissue. Therefore, train yourself to cough as gently as possible.—Health.