The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-03-12
FRESH AIR AND FOOD.
..e BLACK FOREST SURE CURE FOR
CONSUMPTION.

There is an interesting article In Inc
v;noteenth Century in which Mr.. J.
Gibson tells how he was cured of
As,nntion. Mr. Gibson found him
IL IN at the age of %, suffering from
4 .,,e nhthisis. His case was pronounced
90 be desperate by the doctors. He
.,o;ohed only Q stone pounds, and the
s;saose had such hold upon him that
ho never expected to recover. However,
- vent off into the country, as the
1oo.ors advised. and after three months
= comnlete rest and diet of more
han half gallon of milk a day he had
~ on few pounds weight Then a
f-iend urged him to go to Tordrach in
.ho BLACK forest and place himself un-
der DR.. Walther,
He did so. and in four months he
came back to England in a state of bar
horic health. weighing 1915 stone and
u;th a chest measurement 70 correspond.
what was this magical trea tment of DIR.
waltber? Nourishment, rest and fresh
a;r-uo medicines, no incubation, no
coddljng. but simply open windows day
and night. enormous meals and careful
IL regulated exercise and rest.
II sounds an easy cure, and it began
~ take effect instantaneously in Mr..
Gibson's case. The first thing was to
ooin in weight. and with this object in
view DR.. Walther fairly crammed his
natient. Mr. Gibson gained IN weight.
I Everybody else gained in weight There
was competition as to who should
qain most, and people ate for dear life
with an eye on the scale.
"We used to say among ourselves,
writes Mr.. Gibson, that we had to eat
three times the ordinary amount Of food
one portion to replace natural waste.
a second portion to replace the extra
waste from the disease and a third por-
ton to put on weight so that the system
might be strengthened and finally get
the better of the disease. Everybody
had to lie down for an hour before
meals To bed at and up at 7; break
fast at s. dinner at /, supper at this
was the days routine. with a walk at
snail pace.
From the moment of arrival until
leaving Nordrach the patient never
breathes one breath of any but the
purest air as Nordrach is in the Black
forest, at an elevation of /, 800 feet,
surrounded by trees, and long way
from town or even village. The
easement windows of the sanitarium are
kept wide open day and night, summer
and winter, and in some instances the
windows are taken completely out of
the frames
Thus it is practically an outdoor life
the patient lives continuously. There is
therefore no danger of chills on going
ont in any kind of weather or at any
hour, as the temperature within and
without Is equal So pleasant does this
living in the open become and so hardy
: IS the patient made and so invigorated
that ON his return to this country 1t Is
the greatest misery for him to have to
remain in a room with closed windows.
Being at such a considerable height
i, 800 feet with rise Ill the longer
walks of another 300 feet-the pa
tient, TO get the same amount Of oxygen
into the system. must breathe relative
" more of the raretied air and thus OK
pand tie lungs In this way the lungs
=
All the Gdd corners ana crannies, which
he has hardly used for years, are venti-
lated which the easy walking up hill il
eminently calculated to effect, while at
the same time the almost absolute rest
the patient enjoys allows the lungs to
be practically undisturbed, and so per
mits the healing process to proceed
The climate is much the same as il
England. There is quite as high rain
fall and in winter it is much colder.
But it has been demonstrated beyond &
. doubt that climate has absolutely moth
4 ing to do with the case.
There the patients, who go out regu
larly day after day in all kinds OF
weather. sometimes walk for hours at {
time in the rain without ever thinking
Of changing their wet clothes afterward
This course Mr.. Gibson still adopts anC
finds that such a wetting sometime:
twice in one day-ncver does him any
harm whatever.
He asked DIR. Walther if he thoughi
his system could be carried on with hope
of success in this country. He said tina
II could be worked here quite as well a
at Nordrach or as in the balmies
cline; that all that was required was I
place where pure air was to be had. ST
uated well away from town, al a fai
elevation an1 the man to see -aJ th
system was properly carr
GlDson j. now calir..c
Perfectly true
Absolutely noth l- else el