The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-16
The Lesson on the Opportunity of Spring and Summer
With Enfeebled Constitutions. Weak
Lungs and Tendency to
Consumption.

The lesson to those with enfeebled con-
sttutions, weak lungs or a tendency 10
bronchial trouble or consumption, OF the
vital opportunities that spring and sum-
mer offer them.
The best teaching is the teaching that
will save the most lives.
And this lesson to those with the slight
est predisposition to consumption Will save
more lives than any that can be taught
In the spring and summer catarrh may
be more speedily cured; with nature help
ing the work, the result is more certain;
after the cure the constitution resumes Its
normal condition more quickly; those so
feeble that they should not even expose
themselves to the weather during the win
ter may visit the offices, and are helped in
the progress OF treatment rather than in
jured by the exposure TO outdoor air.
This is what the opportunity OF the
spring and summer months means.
Indeed, with many of the more serious
cases-where long-neglected catarrhal dis
eases, invading the bronchial tubes Whlcn
convey the air to the lungs, has taken its
advance into the tissues OF the lungs
themselves, has reached the END of the
road lined with the mucous membrane
upon which IL lives and feeds, and finding
no new tissues settled down to feed upon
the lung cells-with many of these serious
cases. treatment during the spring and
summer months is the only hope. Little
If any help can be promised them during
the winter.
1t is, then, during the spring and sum-
mer that catarrh in it's early stages. in
VOlving maybe the nasal passages and
throat and vocal cords and windpipe, may
be most speedily cured, and the danger OF
its extension into the deeper part of the
bronchial tubes or lungs averted
1t is then, only during the spring
md summer months, that those
more desperate eases involving the
lungs themselves may be treated
with any hope.
So there is abundant reason for dwelling
upon this matter.
Spring and summer do afford the time to
cure catarrhal conditions.
1t has been seen, even during the In
clement and unfriendly influences Of the
wet and changeable weather. how the
treatment, even against the influences of
the climate and weather, reaches and
cures common catarTh and catarrh of the
throat and catarrh of the vocal cords.
deafness. bronchial catarrh and catarrh of
the lungs.
From now on these wonderful tests will
be made even under more favorable in
fiuences. and all sufferers from catarrhal
or bronchial difficulties. from diseases of
the ear, the throat. the bronchial tubes or
lungs should recognize this and avail
themselves OF this knowledge.
In the spring and summer nature lends
her aid to the work of the physician, the
causes that produce catarrhal conditions
are less active. and liability to cold is re-
duced.
One month Of summer treatment is
worth two months of the most careful
winter treatment, and If all who suffer
from catarrh were wise enough to devote
a little of the summer to treatment there
would soon be few cases of catarrh TO
treat; cases Of deafness could become rare;
head noises a curiosity, and chronic
coughs and consumption would be reduced
to minimum.