El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-26

it in time, and go to some high, dry
lclimate. the lungs have to get more
lair, the apices are called into service
and in doing their normal tasks they
rid themselves of the bacillus.
| Sometimes he is driven off before
any part of the lung is really destroy
ed; with others his fell work is arrest
ed before danger time, and with others
he has gone SO far that he can only be
hindered. He has not left vigor
enough in the lungs for them ever to
lshake him off. This is why sometimes
the dying come to our city and only
ward death off for a little while-they
come too late. The climate has no
blame in their death. 1t can greatly
of the disease, and some who have lost
much lung tissue. and it can often pro-
long the lives of those who are far
gone. if every other circumstance be
favorable. Very rarely does any suf-
ferer come and not get some help.
Another trouble is that people some
times come down here and expect the
climate to do everything. whereas
neither sun, nor air. nor the most skill
full of physicians can cure the patient
| who willfu1ly binders the cure. Good,
wholesome, digestible food is needed.
Life out of doors where the air is pure
as the heavens above must be had.
Plenty of sleep is also a necessary part |
of the cure, and a general obedience to |
the laws of cleanliness and good sense. !
If a man will overload his stomach or |
overwork his body SO that his consti-
tuition has to spend all of its strength |
in mending other ravages, it will not
assist him in Kidding his lungs of
their disease. If he lives wholesome
life, and if his lungs are not too far
gone when he comes. he will have nine
chances out of ten for getting through
and we'll If he will not thus strive for
his own health no doctor nor climate
can save him. Many who claim that
they are not helped have refused to
abide by the laws of nature and take
the care that ordinary good sense adj
vises.
1t is said that there is no consump-
tion among the natives of this part of
the world and that the per cent of re- /;
covery among those who seek healing (:
and recover is greater here s
than in any other part of the world;
that the children of consumptives grow
up here without the faint, and that the {
microbe cannot be natur- /
allied here.
However, as to this last point, it be-
hooves people more than ever to have
care that the bacillus is not given the
slightest excuse for living. The soil
does not willingly harbor the disease
germ-it is too dry. The tuberculosis
bacillus fiourishes in moisture, and b
the dry air deprives it of this; and SO 7
he bacillus is greatly discouraged.
But even this climate cannot do every
hing, and the soil that receives the
,puta of consumptives will harbor the
germs of the disease if there be any
will become infected-of that there is
absolutely no doubt. Rooms should not
,nly be summed and aired but should be Z
umfgated at regular intervals and ev-
rything possible used by consumptives
hould be boiled, summed and aired.
Every possible effort towards perfect!
leanliness should be made.
Consumption carries off one of every s.
tx people who die. 1t is not only
ontagious and an inherited trouble
ut it is one that most readily attacks
Teakness. Nowadays it is the greatest
courge of humanity. 1t carries off
1ore victims than wars, accidents,
lagues or scourges. We of our day
ave driven away the plague of small
on Measles now is only slight dis d.
rider with us, though it once was dead W
r. Science. general intelligence and os
increased standards of cleanliness have -,
id the earth of the dread of all it's tie
reat scourges except consumption. hi
With this we are so familiar that we 10
It our loved ones die; we let the well :,
urse ne SEX ard then themselves fall sa
ick of the disease and die. and many in
ever I;ft : fee towards stopping the pl
erribl@ thing. a;
Nowadays almost every physician a,
dmits that consumption is durable, if sc
AIKEN in time; that It can be greatly ST
elped until the very last, and that it W
an be avoided. bj
What climate can do has been al h,
eady stated, and Ell Paso's climate
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