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IT has been said that the most striking facts connected with respiration are its universality and its continuity. In popular language “the breath is the life.” Breathing is not only a sign of life, it is a condition of its existence. Permanent cessation of breathing is regarded as a sign of death. Link up with this the icy coldness of death and you have two significant facts.
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Breathing, in Living Beings 1 . Nature 72, 355–357 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072355a0
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