Carl Stough was a choral teacher who developed breathing techniques to help singers sing with more nuance and resonance. His therapies, it turned out, were even more effective for emphysemics. These patients had been left to wither and die in a hospital without any hope of getting well. Stough taught them how to breathe properly and essentially "cured" thousands of patients of "incurable" emphysema.

Adapted from Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Riverhead/Penguin Random House, May 2020)

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