Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-03-20
80 in Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 1908.
Fresh sir for the Consumptivo.
BF Or. nENRY !. BowDrTcn.

Btiid yoht houses IN he bohbtrv IN
preference to any place near the sea-
coast. In the country choose a slopc
rather than plain to build upon. and
wlcre the sun can have full access t6 it;
II possible, all the day. BE sure Iif need
be, ty eiiectual sub'drainage) that the
SOL Is thoroughly pemeable TO water
Let no moisture from the soil, from auy
source, be permitted to distill its perni-
cious influences upon the future DWELL
ing or ITS inmates. Let the rooms Be
large, OF substantial breadth rather than
hclghth, and so pierced by windows that
ihe air may have bounteous and free
entrance and exit. Let fre-hlaeer be
bnllt III every room and chamber-fire-
places made for real use, not kent for
show, aud not closed with iron plates
which are to be pierced for ,ajr stoves
Eschcw all furnace heat except fer warm
in9 the entries and corridors.
Outside the house let their be ample
space for air and sunlight. One or two
,recs may he permitted to grow near the
mouse, but MOTTO overshadow it. for moth
! i1G but evil comes from too much shade
either OF trees or climbing vines Both
OF these may very materially prevent
the warm rays of the sun from reaching
and bathing the exterior, or from pene.
trating the interior of the house, which
they should he allowed to do freely, even
in the depths of summer Nothing so
deadens the atmosphere as the tco com
slant closure Of the windows, blinds and
curtains, whereby light and heat as well
as fresh air are excluded. Every morn
ing let the windows be opened widely.
SO as to drive off the remains of foul air
that has necessarily accumulated from
the sleepers during the previous hfght,-
Every night let part of the windows
he lett open, and if possible at the TOP
ard bottom, so that during sleep there
may he still a plenty of fresh, unbreathM
ar tor the children and adults to use
vi course the amount OF space thus OPEN
ed viii vary with the season; but often.
even during our northern winters. espe-
cialiy in furnaceheated house. a small
aperture, at least, may thus be left. Two
or three extra blankets only will be need
ed for any GOODNESS thus caused.
As to the yal0e of fresh air, alike for
the healthy ard the invalid. there seems
to exist great doubt in this community.
Even the healthy have no real faith in
ITS efficacy as means Of giving health.
lnvalids, almost without exception. we
have to educate to that faith. They
have so many doubts about the weather.
1t is teo cold, too hot, 100 windy, or too
clustering. 1t is cloudy, or an east VIM
Prevails. These and hundred other
trivial .deviations from perfect weather
dre noted, and the unfortunate invalid
quietly stays within doors day after day
to avoid them. Nothing is more perni-
ciens, no behavior mere unwlse. Both
invalids and healthy persons ought to es-
chew all such views as arrant folly
whenever in doat6t." wo say to our pa
tients, '.about going out, ial'eays 90 o,a.
If a violent storm is raging, to which no
one would willingly expose himself, then
keep to the house, but the moment it
ceases, seize the occasion for exercise ont
of doors" ''It would be better" said
the late John Ware, .'for everybody, sick
and well, to face every storm, than to be
fearful, as we now usually are, of even
trace Of foul weather. . .4Hdntic.