The Portland daily press., 1897-05-29

ner of living. They are not so weH careo
| for and consequently have not SO gfeao
degree of vital resistance.
"Tuberculous patients are very bright
| and intelligent as rule. Great mental
activity is associated with the disease,
and often a sufferer reminds one OF dia-
mond wearing out it's setting. In some
families the predisposltlon extends
| through five or six generations, and yet
even this fact should not make the
seventh hopeless. Again in other families
the disease develops at the same time and
if the predisposed one can hop over that
period he may generally consider himself
safe. This is the result shown by broad
biological laws. Even after the disease is
developed in patient it is absurd to as
sumo that it cannot be cured. Think
what climate alone does in effecting cures
the Adirondacks, the Georgia Pines,
and Colorado for example. Patients go
there or somewhere else, recommended by
physician, and live for years. Some
attain old age. This only shows that
when ones vital resistance is stimulated
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the disease and to withstand another at
tack. A consumptive has to be fitted to
climate just the same as to medicine or
pill. 1t depends upon the stage of the
disease and the condition of the patient at
the time whether he should have colder
or a warmer, dryer or a more humid
atmosphere, and frequently two consump-
.tives from the same family have to be
sent to entirely different climates
''The death rate has been much lower
in the last twenty years as the result of
the disease being treated on broad lines.
sidered that it was only a question of emp
tying the lung and destroying what was
in it. The history of the disease, how
ever, is one of elimination or destruction.
One of two things happens when per-
son contracts consumption. The disease
must be eliminated or else it kills the
patient The whole effort these days is to
get the patient to throw off the disease
and at the same time to raise the vital
strength. We strengthen the individual
and lessen the load of disease.
pulmonary consumption is essentially
of such chronic nature and attended
with such radical organic changes that
there does not appear to be much chance
of altering the predisposed condition of
the soil by actively Strengthening any of
the purely resisting tendencies of the
blood itself as we do by means of the
Suppose there is special soil in the in
diyidual for every disease If the person
takes diphtheria, by the use of antitoxin
all the diphtheria soil seems to be used
up, and that person never has diphtheria
again. There is no soil in which the
germs of the disease can take root, and
so he is said to be immune, or, in other
words, is guaranteed against the poison
Gus influences of the disease. So it is lin
S Nallpox. We are made immune by va c.
cination. But there are acute diseas es,
particularly diphtheria, which act very
quickly all along the line and kill quick
ly. Koch's lymph was expected at first
to be to consumption what antitoxin is
to diphtheria; but it is claimed that in
stead of mitigating the disease it appeared
to scatter it over the whole body. In
diphtheria the knowledge of its cause
bringsa promised means for its cure. In
eother words, the vital resistance of the
blood itself keeps off tphthisis, while in
acutely infectious diseases an alteration
of sthetcondition5o the ablood gives i'm
munity. cad g7lIa
"Patients who have phthisis are pecu-
liarly susceptible to re-infection, but
nobody now need despair who has the dis
ease. In the adaptation of different
climates to the cure of this disease and
other chronic ailments, new science of
therapeutics has been created The study
of the temperature, range, barometric
pressure and rainfall of different localities
has been as faithfully carried on and with
as careful reference to the need of the in
valid as the composition and strength of
the various medicines composing
other prescriptions. Consumptives should
recollect that here under one flag we have
all the climates of the world. They
should think of our mountains and our
wonderful seaboard and also of our differ
ent soils.
Consumption is prevalent, however.
The disease faces us everywhere, and
patients will die of it, especially among
the poor, who are unable to have the
necessary change of climate, combined
with skilled medical treatment, and,
therefore, cannot increase their vital re-
sistance to throw off the bacilli. Death
walks in spite of everything; but statis-
tics prove that we are improving. The
disease is complex, and the treatment
must be complex. The increased number
of remedies and the raising of the vital
standard of the individual, enabling him
to throw off the disease and making him
immune, make the outlook for the con-
sumptive very bright.
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1t may be taken for granted that, al
though a man can play the game as long
aS he can walk or avon ride wound tho