The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02


day In pleasant weather, wading broo ks,
trout fishing. hunting and occasionally
remained on; all night, building a fire In
the woods ard sleeping alon gside II on a
pile OF henlock boughs. The lumbermen
and hunters had a saying, you can't catch
cold sleeping In the woods II you sleep on
hemlock boughs."
Consumption was In his family, and I
could scarcely believe what my eyes saw:
cur life was totally different In most re-
spects from the first case and a great i'm
provement on It. This patient In y few
months, had reached a point it took the
other years to attain. Afraid TO return
10 the city, we remained on the Beaver
kill three years. then struck for the great
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 Intimately
acquainted with the Indians, and soon
were welcome comrades. When we visited
and hunted with them, they put up a tepee
for our Use. One f~amily-special friends
of o~urs-oonsisted of the father, mother
end five stalwart sons, all splendid speci-
mems Of physical manhood. On an unlucky
day the Government built a square timber
house for them--result, In some tou or five
years all were dead from consumption
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
had no idea what kline of illness it was
that was killing them. Our camp was
1000 feet bow the sea. The patient
became more and more robust; we spent
many nights on the prairie, our only shelter
the buffalo robe each had to roll UP in
while sleeping the soundest and most
refreshing sleep, and in the morning hav-
ing 10 break the ice along the lake shore
to get our canoe TO open water where the
ducks and geese were. We thought
nothing OF going all day with feet wet by
the icy water. The Vaccinations OF the
city still haunted us; three times we re-
turned to New York, hoping 10 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
fight. / think this is the great mistake
many consumptives make, viz: leaving
the climate and surroundings where they
find a cure. to return to where they fell i'll,
MY friend to-day weighs 10 pounds. and
can follow a moose or deer all day. Once
n year he ventures East for n few weeks,
but always heeds the warning he Is sure TO
receive and hastens hack. Once we ven
tured on a four months trip across the
ocean; there we learned just the eleva-
ton that best suited his lungs. Going up
and down Nesuvius. we found that any
thing above $500 feet oppressed linn,
that at 1900 to 1900 feet the conditions for
breathing seemed perfect. One winter we
slipped down 10 New Orleans TO soc what a
Southern air would do; at the end of two
weeks his lungs troubled him so much, !
became alarmed. We didn't wait for morn-
ing, but took a midnight train, next day
on top of Lookout Mountain, 1900 feet
above the sea level, he found promp: relief.
Forced 10 remain away from the city, he
entered 'still more thoroughly into the
hunting life. until he wondered how he
ever could have preferred a city TO the
glorious freedom and health TO he found
only in tho primeval forest OF on the plains.
Observation-Disclosures living many months
among the remote Canadian Indians
wrote: " 70 man knows the meaning of the
word freedom until he has lived among the
original savages before they have been
contaminated by contact With the whites"
lie wrote the truth. Finally settlers began
pouring into the valley, game became
scarce, the patient ought a refuge near
Lake ltasca among the pine forests around
the head waters OF the Mississippi. there,
1900 feet above the sea, he has a perma-
nent camp on one Of the thousand OF beauti-
full lakes that abound In northern Mime
sofa, whore he spends several months each
year. surrounded by game and the finest
fishing, Ho declares the wealth Of all the
Rockefellers would be no inducement Tor
him 10 remain in the city. even If he could
be assured good health,
/ have given only an outline Of our sue
o. o.
death, TO magnificent health.
/ u il money can procure the cease
less vigilance, unlimited patience, the con-
slant encouragement Of the patient. he
tender and sympathetic treatment, hnd the
ferocious will necessary to overcome all
Obstacles and keep the patient constantly
on the up grade. 81,
1 believe only n devoted and conRenial
friend can fill the bill. For a longer or
shorter time, the patient must not be ex-
nectad 10 remember what TO do. or how TO
do; expect little help from him until well
advanced toward recovery.
1 have little faith ia sanltariums Tor con-
sumptives; the daily observation OF, and
contact with, other patients must he more
or less depressing. ] kept nlnle hteIerteu
and busy out doors, ana as iar an possible
from any but the healthy n cheerful.
/ believe one climate viii agree with one
and NOT with another; il doesn't take long 10
find the right climate, eashore or mountain
top. north or south. ! also believe. con-
sumption is a far less dangerous dis ease
,,Lan many Others we think lightly OF. The
doctors now seem to be feeling their way
sioyvly along the right path. III a layman
co,ij snatch two patients from deaths
clutches, they may reach the same point
S'I perhars I ought to speak more modcstly
- NO hHs NO scientific training, but
INV justification iii the doctors toid the
,rry,, I'll have cured and saved two dcs-
pernte cases of .uinpt,0n tne uoctors
had given mp, and lor WIFI ,ney were
Tbis lattrT cant injuro those doctors,
tor De- buried them all long years ago; " II
ros,l,s In creating hope, and pointing the
way 10 recovered health Tor one SUFFERER
| will lie well paid. -, A., nor s,,-u
S r PAUL. MINI Feb. 20.
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