St. Landry democrat., 1883-08-18
Tie Cure of Consumption.

The cure of consumption is not to
be sought in drugs. A long and fruit
less search has been in progress Tor
hundreds of years, and is still going on
to find drug that will cure consump-
ton. None has been found, and none
ever will be found. Yet hundreds OF
persons have been cured of the disease
not always by physlcians-often With
out any aid (hindrance) from drugs.
The first step in the cure of the disease
| is the avoidance of the causes. Pure
air is an indispensable requisite. Many
have been cured in an advanced stage
by passing most of their time outdoors,
engaged in some light employment.
| of the weather to keep him within
doors. He must protect himself from
| the weather by sufficient clothing, and
| go out and keep out in nearly all kinds
of weather. The disease is sometimes
arrested, and comparative health res
tored, when nearly one half OF the
whole lung has been destroyed. Nu-
merous cases might be given where re-
| coyery took place in a more or less ad-
yanced stage of the disease. One or
two instances must suffice.
| DIR. James Norcum, of EdentoWn, n.
c., who had been seriously i'll with the
disease for year, was on that account,
| in Feb, 1918, discharged from his po-
sition as surgeon in United States
regiment. He then commenced the
practice of his profession. and con-
tinued to attend the most laborious du--
ties of it at all times of the day and
night, in rain, hail. snow, storms, and
sunshine, when ever he was called, TOR
eighteen months. OF his condition then
! |, ,.1rs A ho opI IF rho TINA I had
| lost my hectic fever, night sweats, pu-
rulent expectoration, and my cough had
nearly left me; and my chest had re-
covered its capacity of free and easy
expansion. and the ulcers in my lungs
| were entirely healed" DR.. Norcum
lived till 1850, when he was killed by
an accident. DIR. Norcum related the
case of a man who, by riding ten miles
a day on horseback in 1910, was cured
| of consumption, and was free from the
| disease twenty years later.
| "a. P.,n lawyer-poet of some re-
nown, native of England, was sixth
child. His parents had both died of
consumption, and all his brothers and
sisters, as they approached the age of
| twenty-one, paled away and died of the
same disease. In his twentieth year
he began to grow feeble, and, expecting
the same fate as the rest of his family,
| he went to Arkansas, lived hunters
life, camped out for weeks and months
| together, and atthe end of twenty years
was in perfect health. Outdoor life, IN
elerated and dry reagions, is more bene-
| fetal than in damp locations.
In the tEeatment OF consumption, the
improuenl 1T Of the nutrition of the body
is ue,y if,bortaRt. One reason why
outdoor lA proves so beneficial is, that
| it improves the nutrition as well as pu-
rifles the blood. Special attention is
often required to insure the digestion
and assimilation of fatty elements of
food. Cod-liverkH may be of much
benefit, being pet ,,iarly adapted by its
composition and Rfford the nutriment
most needed in such cases; The gene
raj nutrition of the body must receive
careful attention. The consumptive, if
able to go about, should never give mp
and confine himself to the house. His
only hope is an outdoor life.