Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-10-18

DR.. John MetZerOtt OIL washington,
D. c., is a physician who believes that
many cases of tuberculosis would be
cured which are not cured now were
the disease diagnosed at a sufficiently
early date" He is also "Of the opinion
that even when the malady has pro
crossed quite far that fair percentage
OF cures may still be effected by insti-
tuting a rational theraphy." He is con-
yiuced too, that the duration of life
Of many an apparently hopeless case
of consumption may be indefinitely
prolonged by resorting to proper diete-
tic, climatic and other hygieDic meas
ures." That many ConsumptiVes are
cured he infers from the fact that 1t
is rather the exception to find perfectly
sOH9d lungs at death, in which there
are no pleuritic adhesiOns or infltra-
tons of any sort in the lung tissue it
self" Few post-mOrtems in the great
pathological laboratory in Vienna
coming under his observation during a
period of four years where it could be
positively said by the pathologist that
the subject had been completely free
from the disease his entire life.
These conclusions DR.. Metzerott an
nounced in paper read by him before
the American Congress of Tubercu-
losis February %, 1900, and reproduced
in the August number of the Sanitar-
ian, giving an interesting history of
his own case, which was properly dag
nosed in it's early stages and cured by
"the cultivation Of the power of resist
ance and to the sunlight and the
open-air life" he adopted and is still
leading.
DR.. Metzerott quotes a Maryland
physician as saying that consumption
is = hunger for air and light and that
it thrives among those who do not
avail themselves Of these and the other
gifts of nature. He tells us that he
had to give up his college IN 1886,
suffering from an uncomfortable cough,
accompanied by night sweats, pains
in the front and back OF the chest, loss
of sleep and flesh and copious eXpecto-
rations. He now considers that the
third stage of the disease had been
reached before the treatment pre-
scrbod began. This included his
transfer to southern California, where
he was so weak on arriving that he
had to be assisted in walking by help
The change was at first very discourag-
ing. The dust Of the desert aggra-
waited the cough and the night sWeats
increased so much that if the sheets
upon which he slept had been dipped
in tub Of water they could not have
been more drenched. His improve
ment was very slow, but by degrees he
was enabled to mount horse and to
ride never less than 10 and often as
many as 20 miles a day. He was on
the point of returning east. discour-
aged with the slow progress he was
making toward recovery. Indeed, he
was seemingly getting worse; was, in
fact. much worse, but he was assured
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