The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-12-11
CONSUMPTION
The Modern Crusade Working
Wonders Against This Dread
Disease.

DtScdSc.
frho following Is an extract from
an address made recently by Irv-
Ing Fisher, Professor oI Political
Economy at Yale University aud
Secretary Of the New Haven
County Autl.Tnberculosls Assocla-
tlon.l
Continued from last wetk)
Sleeping out. .oi.door- has biIher-
to boon more common In caIlfor.
MIA aud Colorado than In the East,
hut DR.. MilIet, OF Brockton, Mass
achuselts, has proved In his sana'
tnrIum that It il possible In New
England, ana his example has
been widely followed II may
now be pretty confidently asserted
that Il is feasible and beneficial in
an climates and seasons, Tho
patient, instead OF catching cold,as
the unInItiated always fear, be-
comcs almost absolutely Immune
to colds. The only ~ Effects thus
far observed seem to be occasional
neuralgia aud catarrh (both OF
Ulhlrh ara ayoldable II the bed is
sufficiently protected from wind
and frost bites OF the nose or ears,
which llkewlse may be avoided by
proper protection. One dctermin.
Cd lady In Colorado, with a thin,
aquIline nose, used TO protect that
member by nose.mask which
gave her the appearance Of a foot
ball player. Such treatment
could, of course, be followed at
home, and sometimes is, Dut until
the old prejudic,s against night
Ylr, dampness, and inilultesimal
adrsughtsn are abolished land In
order 10 help abolish lhem) we
need numerous sanatorla. The
iirst State TO establish n State san
ntorium was Massachusetts,. Al
Rutland there lsa large State In
rlllulion, and very successful
one. Rhode Island Is contomplat'
Ing one New York has a helf-
million-dollar Institution under
way New Jersey is reported TO
have appropriated 100000 for the
same purpose; Delaware, Mary
land, Illinois, aud Michigan, and a
great many Individual cities, a.
New York, Philadelphia, Boston
New Haven, Scranton, Chicago, 81,
Paul, aud Montreal,are making an
active crusade against the disease
A great deal OF money has already
been given by philanihropist'
toward this object. In Phlladel
phla Mr.. Phipps alone has Rlvct
Sl,00O,OO0 for the purpose OF eradI
eating The disease In that cityi TO
tho object Of this movement Is no
simply 10 cure few eonsumptlves
but ultimately TO wipe on the d'
sease from the face OF the earth.
The treatment does not cousis
Of fresh alr alone, but OF four prlu
cIpal "cures;n viz, air cure, FOO
cure, rest cure, and mind cur
The air cure n the most important
ono can 20 without air but a yer
few minutes without dying, where
ns one may go without food for
month before death occu,'
Moreover, We lnhale from the a
mosphere daily, or ought to, ]
pounds OF oxygen, which is MOI
than the absorption Of food this
goes on even IN working ma
But IN order to absorb enough OK.
gen to maintain vigorous healtl
1t Ia necessary to breathe pure a
twenty.fonr hours day. I'll
ordinary city man breathes In
pure air more than twenty.thr,
hours out Of the twenty.iou
This Il tho great predisposlr
cause OF tuberculosis, aud In faI
for that matter, OF every diseas
The consumptlve sanatorlum pr
vldr- pure mir, partly by ventil
lin, but mainly hy the mul
simpler and more 4, ctive meth'
Of kwrplng It's patients out-of-doo
eight or ten hours Ia tn dayiln
aud, " possible, ton hours At nlgl
Tha devices to secure this res,
arc numerous aud lnterestiu
A covered porch protected ire
the wind on one, tr at most Nv
sides Is ,he FIRST requisite for d
use. A reclining chair, and
wInier q fur coat and blanke
9. With "poatlacs" aud moccasins
ihe'Iegs and feet, complete tho o
iit. snugly cnsconced In such
cozy corner, tho inyalld finds hi
sell Independent OF wind, ram, T,
or snow, and spends his days
D. q k..daoo