Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Another Sure Cure For Weak LIMOS
A NEW YORK PHYSICIAN TELLS HOW TO GET STRONG WITHOUT
MONEY AND WITHOUT DRUGS.

The discovery of the fact that exercise of
the most active character constitutes one
of the best cures for diseases of the
heart and lungs has just been announced
by several prominent New York physi-
clans. For some time past they nave
been experimenting to prove the correct
ness of this theory and now that their
investigations have shown that they
were not mistaken they have given their
discovery to the world and they are con
fident that it will tend to greatly reduce
the number of deaths from these very
common diseases in the future. In fact
they are so carefully persuaded that
their discovery is of the greatest advan-
tage to the world that they have made
1t as public as possible, without hope of
either fame or financial advantage for
themselves, and suffering humanity. If 1t
will follow their prescription, Will reap
the benefit Of their most careful studies.
OF course the best medical men have
long recognized the value of an active life
out of doors in making men and women
healthy and strong. They nave often
prescribed mild courses OF exercise IN the
gymnasium for patients suffering from
certain forms of disease but that such
exercise might ACTUALLY cure sum us
eases as those of the lungs n heart
has never occurred to practitioners but
now that the fact of this discovery has
been asserted by SO many OF the best
medical men in New York. it will not be
long before the society people, who have
long made gymnastics a fad, Will De
working and exercising side by side with
those in whom the seed of consumption
has come to threaten death or for whom
a weak heart brings promise of much suf-
fering. Ever since society made the dis
covery that exercise in a gymnasium
meant health, strength Of muscles and
beauty and grace of figure the petted
children of wealth have taken their daily
exercise with the regularity of a profess
sional gymnast and the improvement in
their appearance is alone sufficient to
recommend the new cure to those n
are suffering from the diseases that may
be treated in this way.
from Germany where diseases Of the
heart have long been treated by what
has been called the "Resisted Move
ment." Under this name the specialists
who have located at the little town of
Bad Nauheim have disguised what was
simply a course in gymnastics, mild at
first and then continuing by regular
stages to exercises of a more violent
character. So successful has been this
treatment that the Resisted Movement
cure has made the town famous and peo-
pie now travel from all parts of Europe
to Bad Nauheim fully realizing that
there many of the most serious affections
of that delicate organ, the heart, may be
finally overcome.
Hearing of the remarkable cures ac-
at this German health resort
American physicians have visit
ed Bad Nauheim and the result is that
method Of treatment closely following
he German lines is to he introduced in
country. Moreover the American
have also found that con-
sumption may be cured in this manner
as easily as the diseases of the heart.
provided of course that the lungs of the
sufferers have not been too fully affected
so that in the future pulmonary troubles
will be treated in practically the same
name Strange as this method Of
may seem to those who have
not investigated physicians in general