The Use of Fresh Air to the Invalid.
To the Invalid and convalescent fresh air is most valuable. Fresh air ie composed you know, of oxygen diluted with nitrogen. It is tha breathing of the oxygen that burns off the carbon in the veins, and turns th« blood into a revivifying life-renewing fluid.
Here Js a simile .- Those butchers who catch " in buckets the blood of slaughtered animals find it very dark :n colour," and unsuitable for human diet — in puddings or otherwise— until it is properly stirred and turns red. This is because tlu oxygen of the mingled air at once burns off the poisonous carbon Thi<f is precisely what happens in the convalescent's lungs, if he betakes himself out of doors and stays out as ion-g as possible. I Let him go out, out, out, and so give i himself a chance of renewal of health. He | will hardly know he is the same individual 1 in a month's time.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 76
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162The Use of Fresh Air to the Invalid. Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 76
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