Over the next decade, Stough would take his treatment to a half-dozen of the largest VA hospitals on the East Coast, sometimes working on patients seven days a week. He’d go on to treat not only emphysema, but asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, and more. The benefits of breathing, of harnessing the art of exhalation, Stough found, extended not just to the chronically sick or to singers, but to everyone.
