The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-10-26
NATURE 8 CURES HE BEST.
Air, Light and water Are Sovereign
Remedies for Diseases OF
Mankind.

| Ilfed people more or less run down
may like TO have particulars of the al
OR nature cure so popular in German,
just now.
The system, says the London Mail
is said TO represent reaction agains
the overuse of drugs and serum. l.
appeals for the natural life as the tru,
remedy for i'll health. N the lovely
woods of Dresden and in various Other
captivating spots in Germany pasients
undergoing the cure" are count I'd by
hundreds. They come from Russia
America, Africa, Australia, India, ever
from far-off Siberia and the Ural noun
tains. while England contributes foul
hopeful invalids to the crowd. The
open-air bath is one method of II eat.
ment. In various palisaded Enclosures
men, women and children, array ed in
the scantiest permissible garb, battle
themselves in the air, indulging mean
while in sport, play and exercise for
varying periods.
An interesting illustration of the
cure" may be found in Nansen's "On
Snowshoes Through Greenland" He
tells of Eskimos on the east coast who
took their air baths habitually by
throwing off their clothing in their
half-warmed buts at evening, and so
kept strong and well. Under Danish
influence and European teaching as to
the proprieties, they gave up their air
bath and were ravaged by consump-
ton.
Near the air bath Enclosure are other
spaces for what is termed the lying
down and air cure" In these spaces
are wooden huts raised on supports
and open all one side, except for cur
tain. In these huts the night is spent,
the invalid passing in the morning to
a couch out of doors, where almost all
the day he or she lies wrapped in rugs,
but able to read or work and eat.
Next to air comes light, and this
with heat is utilized in "sun baths"
arranged on the roof of the "cure" es-
tablishment, fully exposed to the sky,
but with a shade over each head. The
patients lie either "free"-that is, un-
clothed-or closely wrapped on mat.
tresses for about an hour, and the
bath is completed with warm and cold
water.
When the sun is not available or is
unsuitable equivalent good is obtained,
it is said, by the use of electric light
and heat. Cabinets are fitted with 100
or more glow lights and with panes OF
colored glass-blue, for instance
through which the arc lights can play |
yellow. red or violet rays. The
light streams through the outer skin,
destroys bacilli, increases pigment and
and is supposed to relieve
pain or lessen internal congestions.
Water is available in all the we'll
Known forms of the cure. The "wech-
;el-douche" is fearful and wonderful,
or as You lie in long bath a force
pump on either side pounds down a
nerciless stream of hot and cold al.
-ernately for 20 and 30 seconds each.
The hot steam kettle douche is another
orm of benevolent torture.
1t goes without saying that the hours
ire early, and by seven a. m. the frugal
reakfast is on hand. You may have
pecial cocoa, or, health Coffee" or
ven tea (of hips and hawsD with sour
mix and rusks and butter. By ten
ou may obtain some fruit or, rarely,
n egg and sour milk-sometimes a
ght red wine and butter brod" are
to weakness. At one
clock comes the chief meal, consist
lg of vegetable soup or entree, meat
r fish, with two vegetables, preferably
OF roots; salad made with lemon
lice instead of vinegar), cooked fruits
nd creams, but-and here is the crux-
o salt, no water and no bread!