Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-16

known. But these pldlHS az
: settled, and SO extensive that tne ar from
other unhealthy regions can hardly VISIT
them, except in very anu Thorofoxa ~
GO olso it il on the ocean. therefore, on
90, H'e snisces our healthy lungs can very
sill otav healthy, and our weak lungs can
70, 80 much benefited even without ele-
te+;on Rut / think that elevation, taken
as a synonym of thinner, rarined air. mas
8 nlocsss where the sir is mixed with
ppbnoTions impurities With elevation,
density. the specific gravity of the air, de-
creases, and many bodies, gases,y vapors,
organic matters, germs, etc, which are
near the soil of vallies, will be suspended
in the air, and will not do so several thou
[ sand feet high above, where the specific
gravity of the air is considerably less.
Somebody would demonstrate and say, how
then could it be that the factories in the
Riesengebirge would have the same bad
influence as those in the vallies, as some
bad admixtnres in the air, according to
their greater sp cifc gravity. would have
to sink down Q That may be so IN part
but it may be done very slowly; and as the
source OF generation is SO near the people,
they, nevertheless, have to suffer by IL.
10 use short expression Tor n long ex-
planstion, Il would say: Our lungs will
| prosper best where air is purest; therefore
avoid all low, damp, marshy, crowded
much decay, and so many mechanical,
chemical and organic substances which
Epoison the air. The difference in the in
4 buence of lowlands and crowded life, and
life on tie table lands and mountains. on
/ our lungs, can nowhere,b be seen SO striking
as here in our beautiful 4 ast Tennessee,
While here in the vallies, and still more 50
in the towns, consumption is prevalent, /
did not see . single cases OF, it up on the
tsble-land (Wartburg), where | lived for
/ seven years. If any body would have to
make map to show the districts of: East
/ Tennessee where consumption prevails and
| where NJ t, he would have to draw his lines
right between the valleys and tsble-lands
| and mountains. If anything can demon
strate the doctrines OF DR.. Schneider, it is
our East Tennessee. We verify have no
need to travel to Florida, Italy, Calitornia,
etc. In our high table-lands and noun
tains, we have all the salubrity any other
country can afford. at the same time, our
forests IN the highlands contain q consid-
cradle percentage of pine wood, whose eX-
haiations have such u chemical influence
on the oxygen that good part of it is
changed into ozone, which is the greatest
lpurIfer Of air in existence. DR.. Schreib Der
says on this subject: While oxygen re-
qui es considerable degree of heat before
! II will combine with other su distances ozone
does so at ordinary temperatures. Ozone
chemically COM hining with them. and con
vertIng them into other bodies" s. ~
ut has been the custom for quite a long
time to recommend the pine woods as I
place of residence for pulmonary invalids
but the why of the procedure has only re
Gently been discovered" Its ozone vi
u VIII it ever be invented to Produc,
ozone in such quantities as TO not only dis
infect sick rooms, hospitals, but even in
large cities2 e Or will it ever be that n
ligntened governments will respectful
: listen to the doctrines of science and do d!
much tor ventilation or even aIroducts a
they for instance already have done il
Vienna for aquaeducts, wnere they lead Q
noble large stream of water, for 40 miles
| from a nigh mountain clear down tC
I. Vienna providing this capital with the
r cIeal est aid beat of water. This idea Of
large af-oducts may now look chImerIchf,
but it will not do SO in century from
now. w hat ventilation cansdo,we see in
an striking instance. a bad epidemic of ty-
|. phoid fever was raging IN Vfenna, the hos
pitfalls being filed with patients. In every
one of those hospitals good many doctors
and nurses had also been caught by the
5 disease eXceptfn the hospital of Naerln e
"a suburb of Vienna), This hospital was
| erected by the munifcence of Baron Roths-
child, and furnished with all the newest
D simprOveme nts. one of which -ls "a good
steam ventilatOr in the basement rooms.
Not one of the doctors or nurses caught
the disease. Though this instance refers
to typhoid fever, clean air equally refers TO
7 lung diseases Now, what snail we do to
prevent or cure consumptive lungs?
: Above all, have the air you breathe as
pure as you can get it, 1t your cOnstitu-
ton is tender, if you have steady or often
returniugCeough,if your lungs are soften
ing, often painful, II your breath is easily
exhausted, the action of your heart fire.
quently, or if you are the descendant of a
consumptive family, if your sleep is rest
less and you feel rather tired than restored
in the morning, then try, by all means, TO
GO up IN the mountains from at least / ,tUU
Il up to sew eral thousand feet high, and stay
there as long as you can, 1t least two
months. High table-lands, with plenty of
pine tim Der, are, to my experience, best,
becausethe streams of the valley air CAL
not reach them SO well es they could
mountains near the valley borders. There
! bare plenty such high lands In East Iennes'
see and North Carolina which can COM
pete, in salubrity for lung affections and
i general debIHties, with almost any climate
on the globe. As mentioned already, !
] know the salubrity of the table>lands il
Morgan county, around Wartburg, from
-tmy, own exp erlence, and that OF many
Il Others who went there for recovery. SINH
! ! lar reports we have from from the high
landsof AsheVille North Carolina, where
!. lew years SINCE uOsplthl LOT Iuuk
= disea les, under 9the name of Noun.
tain-Sanitarium, had been established
by Dr., Gleitmann at his own
private expense, the first mountain SANTA
lium In the United States in imitation OF
the Numerous similar institutions which
have. spru1 up in Europe DR.. Gleits
! man is from competent sources recommend
ed as q hlg hly educated physician and Ia.
+ records OF his SUBSTITUTION prove his nigt
capsc ~ and experience in treating luns
diseases. 8HE
In Wartburg alsoi good, old expert
enced physician, but patients have to stay
. in boarding or private houses. For botl
Il of these places railroads are constructing
that for W artburg is nearly finished.
Il Now word to get to1hose who are no
y able to leave their homes. Our lungs ar
: ait organs; the change OF blood, the warmth
+ OF the whole system depends on them
Therefore, avoid all places whe all Cal
q be contaminated. Do not live in low
Il damp, marshy places. Keep your houses
clean and ventilated. 1t often is q grea
mistake with people to shut up their sleep
J, ing rooms nearly Dramatically, believing
20 that nights air is unhealthy. Just imagine
three or four persons sleeping in one room