Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1901-09-07
TENT LIFE FOR CONSERVATIVES
An Experimenters Notion of How a
Cure May BE Effected.

As soon as the weather viii permit
and proper locations can be selected
there viii be pitched near Boston the
frat of a number IF camps for con-
sumptives This camp (and each sue
Ceeding camp will be like IT'D will con-
sist Of ten piano-boX tents arranged in
a circle with an open-air fire in the
center. and surrounded by duck wall
eight feet high. Each of these tents
will be a consumptlve's home; a con-
sumptive will sleep there, even through
the coolest weather. with no other pro-
lection than plenty of felt blankets,
felt sleeping boots, and two gallon
jug of hot water.
The tents are made Of twelve ounce
duck. are only seven feet high with
four foot walls, boxed in around the
bottom a foot from the ground. They
will be lined with weather paper. The
flaps win open towards the fire, the ten
tents making q little circle about a
clean gravel court. In the duck wall
which will surround the whole will be a
single entrance. The people who live
there will wear one heavy suit night
and day. They viii each OF them take
one quick solpless bath week, and
viii eat three good hearty meals a day,
with coffee in the morning and hot
chocolate any time OF the day or night.
Their bill Of fare will include milk, eggs,
veg tables. bread and butter and meat
chiefly beef, mutton or pork, broied
on spite before the fire, or roasted in the
embers, or boiled down into soup.
This open NE is expected to cure
them Of their disease The method is
the result Of experiments made last
winter in a tent on Huntington avenue,
by n scientist whose name has not yet
been divulCc1. This gentleman pitched
his tent daring the coolest part OF a
January which was more than usually
cold, and stayed IN Their until the early
spring. engrossed in his experiments.
but finally seeing patients nd announc-
iEG that he wanted as many CCnsump.
lives a. possible to prove the truth Of
his theories.
II wants the consumptIYes still His
theory has been pretty well tested now,
but he still wants as many consump>
tives "a will come to him-the worse
their condition the better-to put them
, in his settl nents
,
forti1es a mans bodily powers; it en-
vOlutes. then evolutes man back toward
ancestral or wild life The skin nails
and hair tougher and thiclIen; pull
monary catarrh stops; hemorrhages
cease. \ civilized man loses his SEN
sitiveness; his emotions change. lie
becomes insensitive and fearless. All
his energy goes to nutrition; his in
tellectual centeTs are dormant. All his
powers are concentrated in building and
repair. He falls asleep at twilight and
wakes at dawn. ready to eat. Incl
dental disaster affects him little; he
changes from a dollhouse plant to an
oak. The fear and panic customary tn
a crowd of cGnsumptivcs no longer af-
fects him and thus the greatest danger
of hospltalism is avoided.
Baron Larry Nap, chief surg on and
adviser, made this same observation in
his Egyptian and Russian campaigns;
that iAcipient consumptives make the
best soldiers. They have Spartan
courage. and army life properly regu-
lated win cure them A regiment CT
corsumptives would be no mean
enemy"
The camps are merely for the pur-
pose of scientific investigation, and If Il
patient cannot afford the expenses he
will be taken free. The camps will all
be near the city where scientific ply
slcians are within calI.-Boston Eve
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