The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-20
a successful battle with this dis.
Treatment fin Colorado.

of a successful battle with this dis
 Treatment in Colorado.
 But to continue the discussion of my own case. It was one month aster my first series of hemmorrages be- fore was able to travel Then went to Denver and placed myself under the treatment of Dr. s. G. Bonney, whom very naturally regard as the greatest lung doctor in America. l would be estimate 1ase 'nrn nnon the ability of this man, who guided my footsteps into the pSths which led to restoration of my shat tered health.
 had told me that 1 had tuberculosis. My home doctor had confided to me the information that desired to travel in the West. I asked him how he had but he only smiled. When 1 left home darkness. I has no fixed Idea of where I expected to find temper iry sent. but I harbored an unshaken de- termination to get we'll. despite the misgivings which l could clearly see depicted upon the faces of friends who fortunate enough to gain the company of a friend. who was suffering just as I was. having been attacked while a student at Bellevue hospital In New
 
 by eminent medical authorities in New York to go to Denver. He had been equipped with letters of introduction by them to lung specialists in that city. and l promptly joined nm. m. oood luck to meet another friend who was under treatment of Dr. Bonney and secured board at the same house where he was stopping He descrio3d ,d trsai .9 us ment and recited the wonderful pflysi- cal progress he had made. At the boarding house were fourteen 'lung- CTS" the happiest and jolliest asEre- gation of health seekers have eyer seen. Their optimism immediately ke- came infectious and we Joined the party and at once. even before we had sought. medical advice. adopted their method of chasing the cure" as 1t Is very appropriately termed.
 t A few days later when I found n.y. self closeted in the private office of had been told by him that too was a Hunger" but that had acted wisely in coming early to a climate where the air is pure and the largest amount If sunshine Is to be had. heaved a sigh frankly detailed to me my exact con- dition, and told me almost to the day the period of time which. in his judg- cover sufficiently to enable me to re- turn home and live in Alabama, pro- vided. of course, I pursued here in a large degree the same manner of llfe which he was about to teach me in Colorado. accepted the doctors statement implicitly. I believed every word he said and subsequent develop ments have proven that my confidence was not in the slightest degree mis- placed.
 Right hero desire to add that this feature of the case has very much to do with assisting consunptive along physician and scrupulous adherence to his mandates.
 During the first three months of my stay in Colorado I played the role of was taught that what I must first have was flesh, and bent my every energy to gaining it.. On my arrival weighed 132 pounds. My normal weight had been 142 pounds. In fact the latter figures represent my maxi mum weight before I contracted tu- herculosis. Today my weight ranges from 168 to 175 pounds, my en 1eavor being not to allow it to drop below the former sum.
 Fresh Air and Sunshine.
 In the beginning of my treatment four things were forcibly and indelibly impressed upon my mtnd-the need of flesh, the necessity of plentiful quan- titles of fresh air. rest of body and mind, and moderation in exercise. was told that if I indulged In d large amount of exercise l would worK eff my surplus flesh as rapidly as put 1t on, that if I worked I could not gain flesh and that my impaired lungs re- quired all the wholesome fresh air and sunshine possible for them to obtain; other members of our little colony spent each day sitting in the genial sunshine-winter sunshjne-in the 6aek yard of .tn our hSsans boarding colS hGnse s would cuddle up fin a large plano box open on one side or else nestle close to the protecting side of the high boar d fence, but always where the suns cred the ground we wrapped ID in overcoats and rugs and braved the clements. At night I kept four wln- dows wide open I, in my ny.. ped room
 I recall that during one extremely cold spell l slept with my four win dows open during a night when the degrees below zero. but was always careful to see that had adequate GOV ering. I soon found that by. always breathing fresh air and by frequent resort to cold baths became imperVi ous to colds and 1t is a fact that have never taken cold since l contracted tuberculosis three and half years ago. -.-.-....,.. .,- the manner of life described above l gained flesh steadily. Happily l had an iron clad" stomach and was able to digest large quantities of nourtshing food A glass of cream at each meal, raw eggs, a tablespoonful of efnul- sion of mixed fats in hot water twice a day, small pellets of strychnine. now and then a course Of FeIlows hypo- phospite, little digitalis when my heart seemed to require 1t. were all ad- Juncts to my regular diet of roast beef, steaks, eggs, butter, chops and like wholesome and nouriShing food. Dur ing all this treatment l made 1t rule my mind diverted by reading, writing on a small table in the open air and swapping yarns with my companions, so that the time passed away pleas antly as well as profitably.
 4 Trip to California.
 At the end of three months of this treatment I had made such subStan- tiai nhvsical gain that my Denver doc- tor consented for me to do some of the travelling and sight seeing which my home physician had insisted that was SO anxious to indulge In. made short side trips out from Denver, but in April became sufficiently bold end strong as to go to California where l spent three weeks. When summer came I "trailed" to a delightful resort far back in the Rocky mountains at an elevation of almost R.000 feet above the sea where I joined another jolly colony of 'lungers" and we spent three months twenty-five miles from the nearest town or railroad. Our life was in the open air all the while free ana easy. and in every way conduciVe 10 completing the cure which haa os-
 When I returned home in September eleven months after my first series of hamerrhaEea I waa YelEh4nH 4af