Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-11-10
Get Out Of Work Cages" to Cure
Consumption.

Consumption.
NO animal ever dies of consump
| ton unless 1t has suffered imprison
ment In cage" says DR.. w. A. Evans
In the Chicago Tribune. From this
fact he draws the conclusion that 1t Is
the Gagged life of animal man, in many
cases an inevitable accompaniment
OF his work, that Is responsible for the
large proportion OF deaths from this
dread disease. How quickly cure
may be wrought If only those affiict-
ed will abandon their work cages"
and get into the fresh air, he tells in
the following paragraphs:
Every year in Chicago there are
5000 cases of tuberculosis among
men, and 1900 individuals die from the
disease. Two years and three months
of more or less inability to work pre-
cede the end In these 1900 cases, to
say nothing of the time lost to those
who are cured. To the economic Chi
cago, the aggregate cost of one years
death roll is the work of one man for
5,365 years.
From the point of view of the
humblest worker, however, the mere
fact that he has contracted tubercu-
losis Is nothing II only the discovery
Is made early enough and little time |
and little money be available for his |
treatment. How short time and how |
little the money necessary may sur
prise the layman who has recognized |
as one of the stubborn,
;ostly diseases which, in the end,
promised only DEATH
only little while ago case
'assed under my observation as typ
cal of what may be done in the earli-
st stages of the disease. He was
bout 23 years old, and a manufacture
1g employe working at his bench. A
light hemorrhage was the first indi-
alton OF the disease He consulted
MUSICIAN at once. He lived at home |
18th his parents, and was a partial
lpport for them The father was
illed in and asked If he could spare
10 earnings OF the young man for one
onth. He thought he could, and was
ore than willing to try.
so, late in July, the boy left his
inch and prepared to lay around In
Q parks as much as possible His
me was top fiat, and he fixed up a
ack on the back porch, In which his :
d was placed, and where he slept.
> was given a substantial diet, and a d
rye quantity Of milk and cream and I
gs were taken daily.
HE was better In an incredibly
ort time. At the end of the four y
eks' period he had gained fifteen =
unds and, to outward appearances, o
s a well man. He secured a posi- -
n at outside work in the country -
| is an example of young man -
red to the worlds work at cost ,,
exceeding S25 over his lost time. - -
"A salesman at 33 years old, pretty l ns
advanced in the early stage of the -
ease, has been another individual
lance of an early cure. He took
ee months away from his work,
ot In shack out of doors, provid.
a proper diet, and is now complet- I, M
his cure by outdoor work In -
a. ~
A Chicago throat specialist discov. ~,
his infection early. and having a o -,
Wedge of the stock business, and
in Indiana, went !.
n there last summer as buyer
attic for packing house. He had $50
to get out OF his cage, and the ~
K, the dieting, and the fresh air ~
} done the rest. "
he whole subject, as it appeals to AL a.,
worker, may be summed up in the W.
ce to discover his infection as II
: as possible; to drop his aggra- ,,,
lg employment; to provide prop WY WY
let, and then to get out of his ~
into the open air. - a.