Why is it that, as a rule, people who live in the country is healthier and live longer than those who live in towns?
There are many reasons; but one certainly is that they live more in the open air. The town –dweller lives a large indoor life, shut up in small, ill-ventilated rooms, or in crowded theatres, picture-houses or lecture halls; and even when he is outside I the streets, the air he breathes is more or less contaminated by smoke and dust and other impurities.
Everyone knows that air is essential to life, ad that if we are prevented from breathing for even a few minutes, we shall die; but everyone does not realize that the breathing of impure air is almost as bad as not breathing any air at all, for impure air slowly poisons the whole system.
Air is composed of two gases, oxygen ad hydrogen, ad it is the oxygen we take into our lungs with every breath that is so essential to life. The red blood which the heart pumps through arteries to every part of the body comes back to the lungs by the veins as purple blood loaded with impurities, and especially with a gas which is poisonous to life. In the lungs it meets the oxygen breathed in from the outer air, and the oxygen purifies and re-vitalizes the blood, which passes on to that heart to be pumped round the body once more on its life sustaining mission. The poison gas, called carbonic aid gas, which the venous blood unloads in the lungs, is breathed out into the air, and is thus got rid of with every breath.
We can now understand the importance’s of ventilation the windows and ventilators of the rooms we live in must be kept open, so that a current of pure air will always be passing through, driving the stale, used –up air out, and replacing it with clean air full oxygen. It is especially important that bedrooms should be kept well-ventilated at night, for to sleep in a shut up room is simply to be slowly poisoned. And the more we can spend our time right out in the open air, the better it will be for our health. The dreaded disease called consumption of the lungs is largely the result of constantly breathing bad air; ad the open air treatment is the only real cure for it.
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