Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-11
FOR CONSuMPTIVES.
Not a Prescription or a Patent Medi-
cine, However.

Not a Prescription or a Patent Medi-
cine, However.
II noted the mortuary report for this city
recently published in The Star, and, while
the percentage of deaths from consumption
among the white population Is no greater
than in some of the large cities and much
less than in others, it occurred to me that
a word of practical suggestion. personal ex-
perience and actual knowledge might be
the means Of prolonging If not saving the
lives of persons who thus afflicted
should their eye encounter It, said
Washington travelling man to a Star re-
porter today.
II spent several years in the west and
portion of this time in central and southern
horseback ride in the vicinity OF Santa
Ana about thirty miles south of Los An
geles. l drew up before vinyard, where a
number of men We're drying raisin grapes.
young fellow of sturdy build. with his
shirt sleeves rolled up above his elbows.
revealing his well-formed muscles, answered
every place from a fve-acre home to
10 O0O-acre Spanish rancho is a ranch in
California; l sought He asked me. as is
the custom where man Is evidently
stranger, if l were in California for my
health. When | told him l there for
pleasure he said l was in luck. and told
me his story. which is briefly this:
4 was a telegraph operator in Chicago
he said, earning a good salary when | de-
veloped symptoms of consumption. l had
the regulation solo cough. l resigned. took
what money 1 had and left for the Pacific
coast. | found the climate on the upper
coast not suited to me. though it Is bene-
fetal to some. l drifted from place to
place. stopping at hotels and boarding
houses. and foOling around the towns. I
did not improve Then l took the advice
of a Californian and came down here to
this ranch. working out in the vineyard as
a laborer. and you see the result He ex
la6 hos md S1a
above well-rounded bicep and deltoid mus
cles.
The secret of this young mans recovery
lies in his good sense in not tempting fate
by staying east until in the secondary or
tertiary stages Of the disease. l have seen
many such cases, | have seen many
sucCumb. The reluctance to abandon home
is great and Unsuitable in a sense. but the
time to cure the disease. if durable the
particular individual by climatic influences,
is in its incipiency. Cures have been re-
corded where the patient has been brought
to the town on .stretcher. but they are
the hundreth case and the nintey-nine
death are forgotten
1.-The fact that cicatrices in the lungs
have been found at autopseS proves that
the LESSONS had in some manner been healed
for, had they not been arrested, death from
pthisis would have resulted. These in
stances are however, 50 rare to be of
value only to medical men, and the public
is unaffected by the knowledge, as the his
tory of the cases has not been satisfactorily
LESSONS in one mans lungs would in all
probability heal those in another's, and the
medical fraternity in general would be in
possession OF the fact.
"Another point from my own experience
The stages of the disease and the condition
of the lungs of the different sufferers va
ries This is highly important. While one
patient would die in Colorado Arizona or
New Mexico, he'd find the climate of Cali
fornia his salvation, and vice versa. Some
thrive on the Pacific coast line: others are
obliged to hurry into the dryer interior.
| The patient should find a place which
benefits him and stick to it.
Recovery does not necessarily come to
those who go to the more prominent resorts
idle around hotel parlors and piazzas, sun
parlOrs and the streets of the town. If this
young man had been rich, he'd probably
died within two years. His poverty COM
PEELED him to earn his own living and in
getting out in the fresh air and sunlight
staying there, exercising and working he
i accomplished his purpose and saved his
| life.
This, | believe, accounts for one reason
! why men who afflicted recover In a
greater percentage than women; they can
{ get out of doors, exercise and rough 1t
| better than a woman. But the great point
! which | personally have seen verified so
many times is: Go early. get out in the dry
| air, stay there and exercise, but go early