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The lungs have been usually regarded as the great fire-place of th

The lungs have been usually regarded as the great fire-place of the human system; but whether or not this is so, the stronger the lungs are the better, without a doubt. – William Andrus Alcott (1798–1859), The Physiology of Marriage, 1855 [On or

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