Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-04-12
FRESH AIR AND FOOD.
THE BLACK FOREST SURE CURE FOR
 CONSUMPTION

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 Night. Enormous Meals. Carefully Regulated Exercise and Rsst.
 There Is an interesting article in The
 Nineteenth Century in which Mr. J. A Gibson tells how be was cured ot consumption Mr Gibson found him
 self. at the age of 2s. suffering from
 acute phthisis His cAss was proDOcnced l tO be desperate by the doctors He
 weighed only stone : pounds. and the
 disease had such hold upon him that
 ho never expected to recover. However. ! he went od into the country. as the
 doctors advised. and after three months ! of complete rest and diet of more | than half gallon of milk day he had ] put on few pounds weight Then l friend urged him to go 10 NOrdrach in ' the Black forest and place himself un- 1 der Dr Waithsr
 He did SO and in four months be
 came back to England in a state of bar
 haric health, weighing l251 stone and
 with achest messurement to correspond What was this magical treatment of Dr
 WSlthsri Eouriskment. rest and fresh
 air-no medicines, no inoculAtion. DO
 coddhng. but simply open windows day
 and night. enormous meals and careful
 ly regulated exercise and rost lt sounds an easy cure. and it began :.
 to take effect instsntaneously in Mir ]
 Gihsons case The first thing was to |
 gain in weight. and with this object in |
 view Dr. Wslther fairly crammed his i
 patient Mr. Gibson gained in weight !
 Every body else gained in weight There l
 was a competition as t0 who should I gain most. and people ate for dear life I
 with an eye on the scale
 We used to say among ourselves, %
 writes Sir, Gihs0n that We had to eat I three times the ordinary amount of food |
 -one portion to replace natural waste, I a seCo1d liortion to replace the extra waste from tho disease and third DOT ton to put ca weight so that the system might be strengthened and finally get the letter Of the disease Everybody had to lie down for Sn hour before meals To bed si g and up at :: break fast at s, dinner at 1. supper at 7-this was the days routine. with a walk at a snail's F1ce-
 From the moment of arrival until leaving N0vdrach the patient never breathes one breath of any but the pGrest air. as NoFdrach Is in the Black forest. at sn elevation of i 500 feet. surrounded by trees, and a long way from a town or even a village The easement windows of the ssnitarium are kept wide open day and night. summer and winter. and in some instances the F V indows are taken completely out of the frames
 Thus it is practically an outdoor life the patient lives continuously There is therefore DO danger of chiIls on going out 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 it is the greatest misery for him to have to remain in a room with closed windows
 Being at such 6 considerable height Il, 500 feet. with a rise in the longer raIks of another 1. 500 feet-ths pa- [ ient, 10 get the same amount of oxygen nto the system. must breathe relative : y more of the rarehed air and thus ex- z and the lungs, In this way the lungs ! Ire completely flooded with pure air { lh the odd corners and crannieS, which 2 le has hardly used for years. are Venti- - ated. which the easy walking up hill is calculated to effect. while st he same time the almost absolute rest he patient enjoys allows the lungs to 'e practically undisturbed. and SO per o nits the healing process to proceed he climate IS much the same as in .nglAnd. There is quite as high a rain 4 Al. and in winter it is much colder. hut it has been demonstrated beyond a \ oubt that climate has absolutely nOth- h ng to do with the case. S
 There the patients. who go out regu- Irly day after day in all kinds of Io sometimes walk for hours at e Ve me in the rain without ever thinking changing their wet clothes Afterward. =. his course NIT. Gibson still adopts and nds that such 6 wetting sometimes vice in one day-never does him any H arm whatever.
 He asked Dr. Walther if he thought - Is system could be carried on with hope success in this country. He said that e could be worked here quite as well as t Nordrach. or as in the halmisst ime; that all that was required was a H ace where pure air was to be had, sit- xE lted well away from a town. at a fair {C ovation. and the man to see that the Se stem was properly carried out Mir. xs ibson is now convinced that this is Su .rfectly true q, Absolutely nothing else is needed Sc' reedom from wind. a high average of nshine. dry climate and all such other tss ings as are generally supposed to be sk necessary go for nothing And this the crux of the whole matter. IL is \. ssible to cure here. on the spot. al - ost all the people of this country who 6 ill of phthisis Why, then. are sani- riums not erected at once to cure the Ddreds of thousands of those who are
 and who have not the means to go 2 road-hundreds of thousands who are . certainly doomed to death as if they 2 re already under the sod if some ch steps be not at once takenf It is AN ] to think that all these people must when they might easily be saved