The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-05-10
A BLAtK FOREST sAxAToRluM.
Curing Sufferers From Consumption BY fresh fh
and Plsa.J Of II.

From the moment OF arrival until
leaving Nordrach the patient never
breathes one breath OF any but the
Forest, ar an elevation OF 1900 feet, sur
rounded by trees and hong way from
"A town or even . village. The easement
windows OF the sanatoria are kept wide
open day and. night. summer and win
ter, and. in sOme instances the win
dows are taken completely out OF the
frames. Thus il is practically AN out
door life the patient lives continuously.
There a., therefore. no danger OF chills
on golng out in any kind OF weather
on al any hour. as the temperature
within and without is equal. SO pleas
ant does This living in the open become,
and so hardy is the patent made anu
50 inVigorated, that on his return 10
This country IL is the greatest misery
FOR him 10 remain In a room with closed
windows, says a writer In the Nine
tecnth Century.
Being at such a considerable height
1900 feet. with a rise in the longer walks
of another 1900 feet-the patient. to get
the same amount Of oxygen into the
system, must breathe relatively more
OF the rarefied air, and thus expand
the lungs. In this way the lungs are
completely Hooded with pure air: all
the old corners and crannies. which he
has hardly used for years. are ventilat-
ed, which the easy walking uphill is
eminently calculated to effect while at
the same time the almost absolute rest
the patient enjoys allows the lungs TO
he practically undisturbed and 50 per-
mts the healing process to proceed.
The cllmale-!s- quite as much the same
as at home. There is quite as high "a
rainfall, and in winter IL is much cold
er. But il has been demonstrated be-
yCnd a doubt that climate has absO-
lutely nothing 10 do with the case.
There the patients. VINO go out regu-
larly. day after day. In all kinds of
weather. some times walk for bours az
a time In the RAIN, without eVer think
ing Of changing their wet clothes after
ward. This course L still adopt. and
find that such a wetting-some times
twice In one day--neVer does me any
harm whatever. / asked DR.. Walther
IL he thought his system could be car
ried on with hope OF success in this
Ountry. He said that II could be
worked here quite as well as at Nor
draCh. or AZ In the balmiest cline; that
all that was required was place where
pure air was 20 be had. situated well
away from tONn, al falr elevation,
and the man to see tlat his system was
properly carried out. | am now con-
ynccd that this Is perfectly true
Absolutely nothing else is needed.
Freedom from wind. a high average of
sunshine. dry climate. and all such
other things. as are generally supposed
20 be SO necessary, 40 for nothing. And
this is the crux of the whole matter.
IL is possible TO cure here, on the spot,
almost all the people OF this country
who are in of phthisis. Why, then,
are sanatoria not erected at once To
cure the hundreds OF thousands of
those who tire ill., and who have
not the means to go abroad-hundreds
OF thousands who are as certainly
doomed to death as If they were al
ready under tn esod, If some such steps
be not at once aiken? Ii is sad to think
-rfITT M these people must die, when
they might easily be saved.