Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-10
TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION.
A Cou.ui's I;spari ou ia. E-suIis OF rro.
f-.sar Nan I--Nden'- Investigations.

f-ssor Nan t-yden'- Investigations.
Thomas Ewing Moore, United States
consul at Neimar, Germany, has sent
Ia the state department practically
complete report uf PROFESSOR Nun Ley
deu's recent address upon the treat
ment of consumption. At the inter
national mslirai congress held at
Moscow during the rasI summer DIR.
won Leyden read paper "n The
Present Treatment ui t"usumpiiNes
and State Care Of Them. \ CON
sumptiye, DR. Won Lcyden holds, does
not necessarily transmit the disc" e
to ms or her children. almost att cases
of inherited consumption bemgraused
10y direct contact of the children and
parents.
However, ia spite of the facility
with which the bacillus tuberculosis
can he transferred, an exaggerated fear
OF the bacillus itself is not the most
effective guard against the disease.
\ hardening of the constitution IN
youth and Il regard for the utmost
cleanliness are vastly more important.
Cleanliness is the best distinction.
Not only prevention, but cure, best
follows these principles.
To strengthening aud hardening the
constitution and to the hygienic die
tetic treatment Professor Won Leyden
gives the preference above all other
methods. OF the numerous medicinal
and serum treatments he spoke most
reservedly. 1t may not he impossible
he says, that some day Koch, Behring,
Buchuer and others may give to suf-
fering humanity an effective serum, or
something similar, but for the present
that method must be adhered to which
is acknowledged to be the best one,
viz, the hygienic-dietetic as it is fol-
lowed in the many sauitarums, such
as Goerbersdorf, Falkenstein, Dayos,
Rieboldsgrum, Arosa and elsewhere.
One-third of the patients have been
cured by this treatment and oEe-thlrd
of them have greatly improved
Every consumptiye must, III the first
stages of the disease, be considered rs
durable. Professor Won Levden men
tions the following chief features of
the Observation-Disclosures treatment !.
Election of a favorable climate. >.
Good air. free from dust. ;. Nutri-
tious food. 1. Exercise. ,. Method
zeal following ont of the cure in closed
establishments. Is. Medicines, which,
although they may he OF secondary
Importance, benefit the cure.
OF all climates, mountainous ones
are deemed the most desirable, but, If
possible the treatment should be fol
lowed in the same region in winch the
patient will have to live and work.
Therefore Sanitariums for consump-
tive patients should he established
I within reach of all centres of pupuIa-
ton. The treatment in an establish
ment is not, il is true, absolutely
I necessary; the same success may he
met with without rrsorting to one, hut
! the former courScis certainly desr-
able, because the results are much
more quickly apparent.
/ When II comes to the care and treat
/ memt of large numbers OF people, of
/ bestowing on thousands of the poorer
/ classes the benefit of the hygienic-
! dietetic treatment. Professor won Ley
den is of the opinion that adyauta-
geous results may only be expected Ivy
/ the establishment of separate special
sanitariums for the people: there can
! be no doubt of their fitness and raisuu
| d'etre, therefore it is the plain duty
of society. of communities, and OF the
state to promote in every waypossihle
the number of sanitariums designed
for poor people. Without direct. or
indirect, help from the state, effective
action can hardly be taken to relieve
the large numbers of penniless con
sumptives. State aid and private
charity must 60 hand III hand.
Professor Won Leyden expects eX-
actly the same good results from the
establishment of peoples sanitariums
as from the best and most expensive
ones already in existence. Such re
/ suits may only be expected when the
/ patients received are in the first stages
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