METHODS OF HYPERRESPIRATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION

To the Editor:  —Because of inquiries received regarding the method of hyperrespiration suggested as a treatment for hypertension (The Journal, April 6), may I say that future investigations of the question will no doubt prove or disprove my theory. The subject is still in the stage of experimentation. I have refrained from describing a definite routine technic of the procedure because, though in my experience the individual variations in the cases were great, the number of cases were too few to permit final conclusions. What I should emphasize is individual study of respiratory functional characteristics and a method of feeling one's way toward the improvement of respiratory expansion of all parts of the lungs simultaneously to the limit of possibility, to teach the "feeling" of good respiratory expansion at this optimum, and urge the maintenance of this optimum for as long periods as possible. The thing I should mostly warn