Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-11

es the conviction that Robert Ions
Stevenson would be alive today had
rested, instead OF exercising, In the
omen air. without undertaking to pro-
nounce on the merits OF the issue thus
raised, the Settler is glad TO give space
to the following extracts from the let
ter OF this correspondent:
Charles Fox Gardiner, N. D, Of Col
orado, In his book, The Care o. the
|Consumptive," says: 1T can be stated
- 4 truism that exercise Of any kind.
as it is generally taken during the
course OF tuberculosis, Is more apt to
be injurious than beneficial. In fact,
none Of the curative forces of nature
have TO be used with more caution,
and selected with greater care TO suit
the individual cases, than muscular
exercise. The habits Of the patient
have To BIZ carefully considered-as
10 what exercise, II any, he has been
accustomed To take daily before being
I'M. It may be stated as 9 general
IruIe, however. that no exercise OF any
kind should be taken when the temper
AZURE or the body Is above 100 degrees
Fahrenheit" DR.. Gardiner then quotes
from DR.. z. L. Trudeau Of Saranac as
follows: 1T is much better, however,
~
always to err on the side Of oyer-cau,
ton in prescribing active exercise 70
tuberculosis patients, and feel con-
fdent that many lives are constantly
Igacriiced TO q deep-rooted and very
general m~isconception which exists n
the lay, and to q great extent IN the
professional mind as well In regard
to the advantage OF active exercise in
this disease. II there Is any n rule
that should be generally applied In
the treatment OF tuberculosis. 1t II
that, when any degree OF fever Is pres
ent, the course OF the disease win b.
lnjuriously affected In direct proper
: tion to the amount Of active exercise
1.-THE patient Is allowed TO take. Still
/ further, I constantly see an apparentl,
| qniescent and arrested process fame
into renewed and often uncontrollabl
activity by one single oye~r.exertion.
That Or. Trudean's ideas on this sui
= feet are faithfully carried out Is show
by this bit Of dialogue sent me b
one Of his Saranac patients:
2 I'VE SIT and sit in the morning ligh'
We sit and sit at noon
i We sit in the days declining light.
We sit by the light Of the moon;
I From early dawn 10 dewy eve,
All night when the stars are 1T,
We fold our hands across our waist
And sit. and SIT, and sit"
AZ In the Outlook for Nov u. 1870
Is there Is an admirable article or 4Tt
o. Modern Crusade Against consnm
IL ton" being in part an address d
iivered by Irving Fisher. professor
.poiittcsi economy at Yale UNIVERSAL
and secretary of the New Haven Coui
~ Anti tuberculosis association Pr
fessor Fisher says: 1T used TO |
supposed that a consumptive needt
/, exercise, and I'M the old days many
consnmptive killed himself BY hors
X, back, rowing or some other siolei
he form Of exercise. II Is true that D
ia ercise liz beneficial, but Ii should
he ways be within the fatigue limit, al
es for the consumptiye that limit il new
In far OF. In numerous cases a relap
has been caused by a sudden ov,
(. exertion This is one of the chief ri
\. sons why. outside OF sanatorio. &C
3 sunptivcs SO rarely get well. Tn
Z. lack the s%elf.control 10 keep with
!. their strength
AT the Winyah Sanatorium, Asi
vile. N. g. The patients daily dir,
tions are sometimes made ont on
&c. blank that has some good advice pri
'en ed on It's back. And there one c
or. flnd the following The healt
asst man sits down because he Is tired
on. the consumptive In order that he m
led not get tired Take only such ex
else as Is directed-neyer tire 20
self WEAKNESS Is an evidence II
Ing you have done what sou should /
| q have DONE
res Before leaving New England Ii i
len my good fortune 10 be under the Il
pr. Of Or T.. o, Otis. One OF the ii
70 things Or Otis said to mr. was: 'Ay,
fatigue as you wonld the EVIL o
You can do yourself more harm by q
'hs afternoons fatigue than you can
over In a month"
ne, Here we have a consensus OF opin
oiu from the east. west. north and sou
me from men Of special learning on
rs subject u ought 10 50 far tow,
pur dissipating the idea thl much Il
else ever In the open AIR u ~
hcial to the consnmptiye.
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