A westerner gives you the Hindu yogi science of breath and yoga exercises

In this book, Atkinson (Yogi Ramacharaka) give you briefly the theories of the functions of respiratory organs, and the part in the human economy played by the breath. The Oriental accepts the theories and facts of his Western brothers (which have been known to him for centuries) and adds thereto much that the latter do not now accept, but which they will in due time "discover" and which, after renaming, they will present to the world as a great truth.