The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-04-04
WHAT A CONSERVATIVE NEEDS.
Pure Air and Careful Nursing Better
Than Change of Climate.

Pure Air and Careful Nursing BETTER
Than Change of Climate.
Florida Cor, Albany Journall
wish something IN this letter would
convince this class Of their fatal error in
looking tlordawarl for relief from their
malady. What a consumptiye needs is
pure air and his or her physical
strength carefully nuFsed These are
Just the two essentials impossible of Sc
curement in Florida. There is not a
particle Of pure, bracing air in the
whole swamp mean state and who
can keep or add to physical strength in
a hot, malarial climate like this of
Florida, where mosquitoes breed and
bore in January? Alas. how sad and
incomprehensible it is that otherwise in
telligent people still cling to the delu
sion that consumption is somehow con-
tracted from cold air, or from catarrh,
or confinement, or exposure, ETC., etc.
Will people ever learn that pulmonary
consumption is simply and solely, first,
la t and always, cOntracte from breath
ing impure air! tannot any sane per-
Son see that those who live wholly out
doors are wholly exempt from ,onsump-
ton, while those who live indoors, that
is TO say those who largely or ha3itually
breathe Yitiated air, are sub. Cct to this
disease in eva proportion as they house
themselves up and inh,le the lung-de-
stroying air of close rooms! 1t is alto
gether and exclusively a matter Of
breathing good or bad air that deter
mines whether you, my consumpti'
friend, are to live OF die Drugs of any
kind have no effect whatever on your
case, except to weaken your stomach,
and so lessen your chance OF retaining
general strength. Going to Florida
has no other eject, ana can have no
other, than to wear you out and add
general debility to your original ills.
Study and act upon this truth Im-
pure air impaired your lungs, and pure
air alone can heal them. They will hesl
themselves infallibly and always if you
can tear out OF your imagination that
accHtsed superstition and fancy that the
night air will hurt you, or that God
fresh outdoor air is at any time your
enemy, ut in the place Of that fallacy
The settled conviction that house air, or
any other kind of foul or breathed up
atmosphere, is your mortal enemy.
Don't, rs is the universal custom,
Judge of air and commend or condemn
it aet ording as it is warm or cold. Let
the first question and test be as to the
parity or impurity Of the air you secure
yourself, not as to its temperature.
old air is generally purer than warm
air because of its antiseptic properties
and because malaria cannot exist in a
temperature below the ireo ing point
Still, warm air, that is, pure, cold, out
door air warmed to q comfortable de-
gree, is just as good lung food as cold
air.
Bring the outdoor air ino your
house in steady and constant supplies,
and warm it if you want warm air, but
don't seek warm air ! y closing up doors
and windows and generating house
born warm air. Your salvation hangs
on making friends with Gods t-door
ar, winter and summer, day and night,
and always giving your lungs that air
tQ breathe warmed if you wish it so in
winter, or cooled if you wish 1t so in
summer, but always fresh ut-door air,
as distinguished from stale, in door air.