The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-10

tons Another feature of the diet is
the eating of raw eggs. The patient
! is urged to eat raw eggs, as many as
possible, but the diet is not compulsory
incidentally, it is not unusual for a
| single pavilion to consume twenty
| dozen raw eggs in a single day Ger
tainly no public hospital has ever been
run on more generous lines.
Saw Eggs APIenty.
SO much depends upon the mental
condition of the patient that every eff
| fort is made to make the surroundings
attractive and this spirit is carried out
in every detail. A single instance will
serve to make this clear
| A raw egg, as everyone knows. is
more or less unpalatable, and, after a
number have been eaten, becomes al
! most loathsOme. The nurse in the
| tubercular ward at North Brother Is
| land serves raw eggs with especial
/
| First, she takes a wineglass and
| sQueeZes lemon JUICE over it, covering
the sides. After adding salt and pep
per the egg is broken into this glass,
! and more lemon juice, and salt and
| pepper are used to cover it. The egg
may be thus swallowed without being
SO much as tasted.
1t is often found that patients who
would be greatly benefited by the new
treatment refuse positively to go to
North Brother Island for fear the new
treatment will be too severe. The best
possible argument for the care which
is taken of the patients lies in the fact
that at the end of the treatment it is
CORRESPONDENCE difficult to persuade
| them to go home.
The patients are required to take
certain prescribed forms of exercises
under the physicians guidance. The
most important feature of this is the
breathing exercise, which must be gone
through with twice daily. This con-
sists of a series of expansions and con-
| fractions of the chest with the body
tent breathes slowly and deeply with
his arms at his sides, above his head
or extended at various angles.
The physicians in attendance or per-
haps the nurse, makes sure that his ex-
ercise, which requires about half an
hour to go through with, be taken
twice each day.
In addition, the patients are encour-
aged to go through the exercises at fire.
of exercise is actually matter of life
and death to these unfortunates, there
is little trouble in inducing them to
breathe plenty of fresh air. At any
hour of the day as a result, one may
see the pink clothed patients. singly or
in groups, stretching their arms and
filling their chests.
| The open-ar feature of the treat
| ment, is of course, the most interesting
Briefly, the theory of the new treat
ment is to enlarge the lungs by intel
ligent exercise and bring the diseased
cells once more into use This done,
the lungs are fed only with pure air in
unlimited quantities, while at the same
time the entire system is nourished
by plenty Of good, wholesome food.
| Even in prescribing fresh air the
treatment is not absolutely compul-
sorry. The patients are made to under
stand the necessity for living out of
doors, no matter what the tempera-
| ture, and the rest is left to them.
Everything is avoided which would
| suggest weight upon the spirits of the
patients AS result these half-a-
hundred patients are surprisingly
| cheerful Hooking colony, and this de-
spite the fact that their malady tends
| to depress them.
Here, then, is the explanation of the
curious colony of pink-clothed men to
| be seen out of doors in all kinds of
weather on the little cape of North
Brother Island. The patients are al
most constantly abroad. They are to
be seen out of doors in all kinds of
weather. 1t is supposed by some that
a position near the water is injurious
for tubercular patients because of the
dampness 1t has been pretty we'll es-
tablished that this is a fallacy.
A German specialist has kept a rec
ord of thousands of cases and has found
that a position near a large body of
water is quite as wholesome as any
other. The dampness, it seems, has
little or no effect On the other hand,
a dry piece of land, especially if the
wind blows, is likely to be dangerous,
no mater what its altitude, since the
germs are likely to be blown about and
be taken into the lungs of those least
able to combat them. North Brother
good a Mace for