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has been so admirab ly dealt with, that the details are
so ski i fully simplified and that the \'lhole has been made
so generally interesting that our readers will be only
grateful to us for deviating in this instance from the
rule \'le usually adopt .
The important point was that Hall d id not treat his subject purely from
the point of vie\'1 of the individual, as he had done in previous lectures
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when he confined himself to the obvious aspects of respiration - the
anatomy of the respiratory organs , the compo sition of pure air as opposed
to foul air, the
diseases of the body due to poor respiration, the
measures necessary t good helth and the like - but broadened his approach
to regard respiration as a problem of Public Health requiring immediate
solution.
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