Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-21
BALLOON CURE
FOR CONSUMPT
PHYSICIANS ADMIT THAT THE
THEORY SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE.
NO GERMS IN UPPER AIR
Scientific Principles, Employing
Natures Own Remedies-PeopIe
Living on Mountain Tops Escape
Lung Troubles.

Its a fine idea, A very clever
thought! And new one, too' said
a local doctor when his attention was
directed to cablegram from Paris
announcing that Dr. Naugier had
suggested to the Academy of Medi-
cine the possibility of curing con-
sumption by balloon ascensions. A
sanitarium 10000 feet above the
earth was recommended. In his daily
constitutional" above the clouds
the patient will experience, says Dr.
Naugier, the effect of the most power
full tonic known A two hours excur-
sion SO 'sf;r from the maddening
crowd so remote from the bacilli
and the bother of the world, will
cause an astonishing multiplication of
the red corpuscles in the blood The
improved condition, moreover, will
persist for ten days or more after the
joyous invalid has come back to earth.
But our Madison doctor. although
he has paid some attention TO the
treatment of tuberculosis, admitted
that the balloon cure was a novelty.
Still I'm not prepared to say he
added, that it might not prove effect
i've. The benefit of elevation in this
disease has long been recognized es-
pecially when the patient can remain
out of doors at such elevation and
can be kept apart from other persons
afflicted with the same malady. l
to1 fNt5
Quito or any of the larger cities no
tab1y high above the sea level. but
know that the inhabitants of the An
DIES and of lofty mountains in general
are seldom troubled with tuberculo-
sis. If the person taking the balloon
cure could ascend in region far
from centers of industry and popula-
ton he would certainly enjoy the
effect of breathing as nearly germless
air as one can find outside of labora-
tories.
"The only question is, could a
balloon be anchored at sufficiently
great elevation to accomplish the re-
suits? Could you fasten your hos
pital to the end OF a 1o- ronn an
reel in your raticut fo~ the morning
visit? And If the sanito7inm was
tied down. how could the patient be
kept aloft lo-~ enoroh TO Get an ade-
quate treatment. But of course it
might be different. II r.. Naueier is
not mistaken in assertin9 that two
hours in a balloon is worth a hogs
head of codliver OIL
Another doctor who has been asso-
ciated with an effort to secure Wis
consin sanitarium for consumptives
said that he doubted the value of
the announced experiments. 80 far
as the cablegram shows" said he,
1.-THE experiments have not been con-
tinued for a long enough time to be
convincing. nor have they included a
sufficiently wide variety of cases. And
how does going up in balloon differ
from ascending a high mountain, IN
less perhaps the psychic effect of the
novel experience may stimulate the
patient abnormally. It's possible, al
so. that the great elevation, combined
with absence from earth itself, its
germs and it's magnetic currents
these things and the probable differ
ence in the atmosphere remote from
any portion of the earth, may bring
about results unlike those to be Sc
cured on mountains Still another
objection is the nervous Irritation
likely to be caused by travelling per
balloon. Most consumptives are al
ready suffering from an impaired
condition of their nervous systems.
"Yet, much good may come from
the balloon cure if it really multiplies
red corpuscles. An abundance OF
red corpus cles would mean healthy,
vigorous blood, able to throw on tu-
berculosis germs. Besides. this cure
has been considered by highly re-
spectacle body of physicians the
French aeademv of medicine. It is
not snecific yUadicatiop hut IT is an
other form of nature cure, like fresh