Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-04-03
THE FORT BAYARD
SANATOR|UM
Great Success Is Reported in the Cure Of
Consumption in All Of Its
Stages.
A WONDERFUL CLAIM MADE.
New Mexlco's Superb Climate Together With Common
Sense Regimen. Work Wonders Ia Restoring
Health to Soldiers Who Have Contracted
TubercuculosIs


1--WE have demonstrated at the For
Bayard sanatorium for soldiers that W
can cure consumption in any stage.
was the astonishing statement made b,
Major Appel, the eminent specialist II
charge of the institution.
IT don't mean to say" went on thu
physician, "that if people come to u:
with lungs so far gone as to destroy
their breathing power we can cure
them, but I do say that we can cure
what has long been regarded as hope
less, the third stage of the disease.
have never made that statement pub
lie before. / haven't been ready te
make it.
| I'VE have been working for results
since the establishment of the sanato-
rum, three years ago, and we have
been doing a great deal Of original in
vestigation regarding the treatment OF
tuberculosis Our best hopes have been
realized, and now you may inform the
public that, under the conditions which
prevail in this territory. the dread dis
ease has been robbed of its terrors."
Publication of the foregoing state
ment of Major d. M. Appel, surgeon, U.
is. A., has drawn the attention of the
whole country to the army general hos
pital for the treatment Of tuberculosis
located at Fort Bayard, New Mexico.
The surgeon in charge has been delug-
ed with letters and telegrams from
physicians, actuated by scientific in
terest, from newspapers, which are
controlled by regard for the welfare
of their readers, and from consumptiv-
es, who would seize every reasonable
means to aid or to insure recovery from
the dreadful disease that holds them in
| it's deadly power.
| 1t was in 1899 that orders came from
| the war department to place at Fort
Bayard brave force to take up new
warfare, this time against foe that
has been ceaselessly active against llu-
manity since humanity came to be,
and hath slain his tens of thousands,
aye tens upon tens of thousands!
| When one remembers the general
feeling shared by physicians that tub
erculosis, or consumption, is sure to
prove fatal and when one recalls the
further fact that tuberculosis alone, OF
the many causes Of mortality, is re-
sponsible for one-flfth of the whole
number Of deaths that occur, one will
understand the interest excited by the
claim, based upon actual results. that
the disease Is coming under a control
that classes 1t with durable ailments.
In a general way the treatment may
l. be said to consist of continual outdoor
life, judicious and generous diet and
rest-fresh air and rest!-more fresh
air and rest! Windows in the dormi-
tories are open all the time and pa
tients are not allowed under cover
from in the morning until at night.
Literally they live out doors.
For one mess Of $50 men 100 dozen
eggs a day are used, and so to &c GAL
Ions of milk. Raw eggs and cod liver
oil are given between meals, not very
tempting to the unintiated, but enjoyed
by those who know how.
A cod liver oil cocktail is drink pc
culiar to the sanatorium, and concoc-
ton Of such skillful mixing that no
taste Of the oil is discernible. Raw eggs
are taken from glass, with yolk un-
broken, seasoned with salt. pepper and
dash of lemon juice. am told that
they might be COMPOUNDED with raw
oysters if taken in the dark.
A patient when asked how anybody
could take such a dose as a raw egg,
said. why, you can't help taking one
tif you give it start. 1t tends to the
taking itself.'
Here are the bills of fare posted for
the cooks guidance In preparing the
meals for March 8, 1902:
BREAKFAST. -
Cereals