Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-10

New York Here they had fireplace
nearly six feet across for biz wood ircs
that made the air indoors almost as pure
as that outside. 1t was 1900 feet above
the sea, and the effect on the patient was
startling in the rapidity of his improve
ment. Instead of two hours horseback
riding each day. we remained out doors
pretty much all day IN pleasant wealth
e., wading brooks, trout fishing. hunting
and occasionally remained out all night,
building fire in the woods and sleep
ing alongside II ON pile OF hemlock
boughs. The lumbermen and hunters
had a saying, you can't catch cold
sleeping in the woods if you sleep on
hemlock houghs."
Consumption was in his family. and
could scarcely believe what my eyes saw ;
our life was totallv different in most re-
improvement on ii. This patient in a
few months had reached point it took
the others years TO attain. Afraid 10 r.
turn TO the city, we remained on the Beav-
erkill three years. then struck for the
greaf plains of the Red River of the
North. We reached there ahead of the
railroads and built our camp on the
Sioux reservation, on the Dakota side
of the river: the country was alive with
game; we became intim ately acquainted
with the Indians, and sooI were welcome
comrades When we visit I'd and hunted
with them, they put W 4 tepee for our
use. One family-speciai friends of ms
consisted of the father. mother and five
Stalwart sons. all splendid specimens of
physical manhood On an unlucky day
the government built square timber
| house for them-reSult, in some four or
| five years all were dead from censump-
| ton except the old buck. An Indian
| agent of twenty years service said he
didn't believe an Indian knew what a
cold was until he changed his tepee for
a house. This family had never before
had cold, and had no idea what kind of
| illness'it was that was killing them. Our
camp was 1000 feet above the sea. The
| patient became more and more robust
we spent many nights on the prairie. cur
only shelter the buffalo robe each had r,
roll mp ia while sleeping the soundest
and most refreshing sleep. and in the
morning having to break the ice along
the lake shore 10 get our canoe TO open
water where the ducks and geese We're.
| We thought nothing of going all day with
| feet wet by the icy water. The faScina-
| tons of the city still haunted MS; three
| times we returned to New York, hoping
to be able to remain. each time-within
| six weeks-my friend would begin to
| cough and complain OF the air until we
saw his only safety was flight. | think
this is the great mistake many con-
sumptiyes make, viz : Leaving the eli
mate and surroundings where they find a
cure to return to where they fell i'll.
My friend today weighs 10 pounds,
and can follow moose or deer all day.
Once year he ventures East for a few
weeks, but always heeds the warning he
is sure to receive and hastens back Once
we ventured on a four months trip
across the ocean: there we learned lust
the elevation that best suited his lungs
Going mp and down Vesuyius, we found
that anything above $500 feet oppressed
him, that at 1900 to 1900 feet the condi.
tons for breathing seemed perfect. Ono
| winter we slipped down to New Orleans
to see what a Southern air would do: al
the end of two weeks his lungs troubled
MN so much | became alarmed. We
| dldn wait for morning, but took a mid.
| night train: next day on top of Lookout
mountain, 2200 feet above the sea level
he found prompt relief. Forced TO re-
main away from the city, he entered still
more thoroughly into the hunting life
until he wondered how he ever could
nave preferred a city to the glorious free
/ dom and health to be found only in the
pflmeval forest or on the plains Cha
feaubrland-after living many months
among the remote Canadian Indians
wrote: NO man knows the meaning a.
the word freedom until he has lived
among the original savages before they
nave peen contaminated by contact with
the whites. He wrote the truth HI
iially settlers began pouring into the val
ley, game became scarce, the patient
| sought refuge near Lake Itasca among
the pine forests around the head waters
OF the Mississippi, there, 1900 feet above
! the sea, he has permanent camp on orc
OF the thousands of beautiful lakes thar
abound In Northern Minnesota. where hf
spends several months each wear sur.
rounded by game and the finest fishing,
re declares the wealth of all the Rocke.
letters would be no inducement for him
to remain in the city. even If No coI,ld - l..
| assured good health. ~
nave given only an outline of OIL
SUCCESSFUL fights against two sentences
OF death. to magnificent health.
Gouht II money can procure the
ceaseiess vigilance, unlimited patience
ne constant encouragement of the pa.
tleht. the tender and sympathetic t,ea+.
ment, and the ferocious viii necessary ~
overcome all obstacles and keep the ma.
llehl constantly on the up grade.
DeIlefe only devoted and congenial
Trend can fill the bin For longer or
shorter time, the patient must not be ey.
pecIed 10 remember what to do, or how
10 30; expect little help from him uni!
wen advanced toward recovery.
nave little faith in sanitariums for
consumptiyes: the daily observation II.
ana contact with, other patients must h.
more or less depressing. ! Kept mine ili-
terested and busy out doors, and as far
as possible from any but the healthy AMI
cheerful.
| believe one climate viii agree with
one and not with another: il doesn't take
long to find the right climate. seashore
or mountain top. north or south. | also
believe consumption is far less danger
Gus disease than many others we thinE
lightly Of The doctors now seem to be
feeling their way SLOWLY. along the right
path. If = layman could snatch two pa
tients from deaths clutches. they may
reach the same point some day.
Perhaps ] ought to speak more moi
estly for one who has no scientific train
ing, but my justification is-if the doc
tors told the truth have cured and
saved two desperate cases of consump-
ton the doctors had given up. and for
which they We're honest enough to give
me all the credit.
This letter can't injurc those doctors.
for we buried them all long years ago:
If ii results in creating hope. and point
ing the way to recovered health for one
sufferer. ! viii he well paid