Note 129 — Chapter VIII · THE “METHOD.”

Within the last few years, an attempt has been made to invest the term, clavicular breathing, with a mode of filling the lungs, pernicious, to the last degree—a process which, we need scarcely say, was never practised, either by Mdlle. Lind, or Rubini, whose method of breathing seems to have been closely analogous to, if not absolutely identical with, her own.