Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, and Fishing, with the True Measures of Blowing (1596) provides multiple instances of "second wind" as (seemingly) the second breath taken in the course of blowing a series of blasts on a hunting horn. Given the sporting milieu, it's conceivable that 19th-century "second wind" arose within cultural ... More @Wikipedia
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