Conspiring (Sympnea and Dyspnea).

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  • Author(s): Szendy, Peter1
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    Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism. 2023, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p108-116. 9p.
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    • Abstract:
      The article explores the conspiracy of breathing together or sympnea and the or imbalance that turns sympnea into tachy- and bradypnea. Topics discussed are breath as a result of vegetal cosmogenesis, cycle of breathing in plants that involved contrasting rhythms, pre-Stoic history of the notion of sympnea, occupied or combat breathing, air conditioning as a pre-condition for life, and shortness of breath.