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PROF. MAX MÜLLER'S article on thought and breathing, in your issue of February 6 (p. 317) has just come into my hands. In it he states that the power of retaining the breath is practised largely by Hindus as a means towards a higher object, viz. the abstraction of the organs of the human body from their natural functions. The same custom prevails amongst a certain sect of Mahometans also—the so-called Softas.
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MURRAY-AYNSLEY, H. Thought and Breathing. Nature 41, 441 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041441a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041441a0
