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· THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING 101 course the chest breathing is impossible to a large extent, as the sides of the body are cramped by the corset, and the thorax can be expanded only a little. But if we breathe without the corset and with the abdominal breathing, we still take in a less quantity of air than in the full or deep breathing, in which all the sides of the thorax are expanded equally. The other things to be taken into consideration are the changes which take place in the body from the throat to the abdomen. The normal breathing of men causes so much rising and so much falling of these organs, with a kind of undulating movernent. In persons whose bodies are cramped by artificial means there would be greater undulations in the chest than in the abdomen. A woman without the corset breathes easily, and the movements are not sudden but slow. On account of the peculiar dress which is worn, a change is made in the form of the waist ; it is inade unnatural, and is shaped like a circle, and this is considered beautiful. The breathing must be in such a way that there shall be an equal motion through all the different parts of the body at the same time ; when one put rises, the others should rise at the same time, and when it falls, the others should fall at the same time. The natural breathing is that in which in all the parts there is an equal change. The chest breathing becoines natural to some women because certain parts are pressed so that they cannot move to take the abdominal breathing. So far as the health is concerned the different parts of the body must receive full exercise, and if the
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