New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-01-11
DISAGREE WITH DR.. ROBIN.
Local Physicians Say Many Consumptlves
Are Cured.

Physicians of this city who were seen yesterday
were positive that tuberculosis could be cured Ihe
vitality of the patient, his environment, the state
of the disease and the climatic conditions all en-
tered into the question of they said Autopses
had shown in many cases the where the
lungs had at time been diseased, but had
healed They agreed with DR.. Robin that pre-
vention was much better than cure, but thought
that air which he advocated as preventive
would also work cure
DR. Henry P. Loomis said that DR. Robin had
spoken on subject with which he was not espe-
callv familiar r"Of course. consumption is cara-
hle ne continued I'VE it right in this city
every day and it is being done all over the land.
The death rate from tuberculosis is now 2SO. much
less than a few years ago while many more per
sons contract the disease. The eureE fresh ar
and simple nourishing food II pecullar ciiiha'ic
conditions can be obtained favorable to the cure,
SO much the better In my work at the Morgue
I've seen many cases where the lungs had been ds-
eased and had healed. The Charity organization
Society has a committee, of which ] am mem
ber which is giving lectures to spread knoWieoee
concerning the cure Of consumption.
At the New-York POSTGRADUATE Medical Schooi
experiuents with consumptives have been made
for several years. DR.. D. B. st. John Roosa said;
in the last FIVE years we have cured twenty-five
cases, and row have another years work to
report on. We have them under our SUPERVISION
We see that their rooms properly ventilated
and that they properly fed We watch their
weights carefully. 1t resolves itself into this III
Won can fStten a patient, you cure him or con-
sumption. Consumption is wasting away of the
lung tissues Now if you feed these tissues
and stop the wasting. the person is cured
DR. Russell Bellamy also thought that tubercu-
losis was durable. He strongly recommended ar
and sunlight more especially. the climate of
Arizona New-Mexico. Colorado, parts of Texas,
where he spent a year investigating consumption.
He added: 'In its earlier stages, consumption can
be cured. Almost my first order to a patient Is 90
10 the geographic zone of the Rockies / hold that
If is mistake in judgment for any physician not to
send TO the foothills any patient able to there
That climate far surpasses the Adirondacks,
Florida. Georgia. The most necessary thing Is
to get of city think the greatest phiian-
1hropy would be build three four sanatoriums
in that zone at various attitudes then run month
lv trains 10 take patients from the big cities there
When DR. s Adolphus Knopf asked if con-
sumption were durable. he referred the inquirer to
his pamphlet. Tuberculosis as a Disease OF the
Masses and How TO Combat It. which
prize of 1900 marks the International Congress
at Berlin in 1899. In that treatise he said:
Can tuberculosis or consumption of the lungs be
cured? This question can be answered with de-
corstmptives where patients in all stages Of the
eisease are received. show that p per cent Leave
much Improved. many of them being again capable
Of oatena IN h esrg stages Of the are
received. as many as ~ to 40 per cent nave oeeh
cured
II is not cured by quaeks: by patent medicines;
or G Other fes sng 9coe eun @ of fres
air sunshine. abundant and good food milk,
eggs. meat vegeta bleS, fruitD the help of GER
tain medicinal substances when the just mentioned
hygienic and dietetic means do not suffice in them
selves TO combat the disease
Mr.. Merwin. superintendent of the outdoor poor.
told of men he had known personally who had been
cured by cold air and simple drugs. In the con-
sumptive pavilion Blackwels Island there are
now 2i5 patients treated by this city. Pure air
and nourIshing food the chief medicines al
though every means known 10 science is used
Superintendent Merwin said that a large proportion
OF the parents were cureo @ s5oInetInes @ inal
lapse said but If is discharged cured
il is safe say he VIII never contract the disease
again