Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-12-08
NE NEED OF SANATORlA
ar THE ENLIGHTENED TREAT.
MsNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.


msNT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
+, W. N. Bryant Thinks They Are Of
orsa, Use In Teaching People the
Fundamental Laws Of Hysisnie liv.
oo-Address Before Woman's Club.
Or. W. n. Bryant Of Ludlow. secre-
,,v Of the Vermont State Tubereulo-
! commission, gave an extremely in
,,sting address before the Brattle.
ara Woman's club Wednesday after
,on on the subject tuberculosis and
H. Modern Sanatorium. The meeting
H.. largely attended and there We're
number of guests In addition to the
sular members. DR.. Bryant said In
Regarding the intrinsic importance
b mis- question of tuberculosis to hui
I-rnity Today ! will say that however
&mch YOU may be interested in Ii per-
z,mally YOU do not begin to realize its
M significance. Ii Is second only in
-nortauCe to the question of your
,.rnal salvation for II relates to your
/. ,terial and physical salvation; and
/, only interests us to-day but will
of interest To our children's chill
~ Ii is question of whether or
H., we may sometime rid the world
4 disease which, ever since history
Ian. has claimed an annual death
H. which has decimated mankind till
/ an actual menace TO the integrity
II the race and causes an annual
isath rate in our own country alone
n quite 10000 human lives. This
<-fans that each day of the year 400
ESmes In this country are stricken
4 I'M sorrow on account of this plague.
The world wide interest In this topic
|Alch now exists is due to two
|Nses. First. the discovery by Koch
| the germ which causes the disease;
syt the wonderful results. of the So
|sUed open air treatment. The idea
Il the open air treatment is not as
|, 4V as some suppose. Two hundred
| ma fifty years ago 1t was recommend
Il BY Sydenham, the great English
|hysician and practiced with success,
|ut owing to the conservatism of the
rofession it fell into disuse only to be
|pyiyed in 1910 in England and some
|hat later in Germany when the first
|kal sanatoria were established.
The old theory of heredity made its
Ifqtment hopeless. We no longer ac
hi this view but regard il as COM
Epnicabe and believe that this is the
|1v way of transmitting 1t. If we
|aye il at all we must acquire ii, we
|annot inherit it. At the same time it
L easily preventable and with proper
Ian regarding the eXpectoration the
|gal relations of daily life may be
|r9intaned with conservatives with
HE utmost safety. In the Is years his
|ow Of the Saranac sanatorium not
H single case has developed from the
|ments there treated among the at
|1dants. A sanatorium with its en-
|ghtened teachings is really the great
Isl safeguard that a community can
|aye against the spread of the evil.
The open air cure is not at all the
simple thing that some have supposed
b to be; it does not mean simply be-
|rg out of doors some hours each day.
Il even living in a tent guided only
h the dictates of ones sweet Will. III
insists of four distinct propositions;
The air cure. the food cure. the rest
lure and the mind cure. All of these
bust work together to obtain the best
fults. Pure air "a hours each day;
II the food. properly selected. that the
tDmach will digest; rest in bed when |
lmperature is above normal; and reg
hated exercise at other times; and the |
bind employed with pleasant and
Epeful surroundings.
Il will be seen at once that all this |
Ian only be accomplished under the
Epervlsion of a physician and trained |
ESstants. 1t does not consist or |
Nme wonderful thing to take or some |
FMderful thing to do; it is a life to /
a life of stern self denial. |
Rhat of results? Statistics from all
,ants where these institutions exist
sye practically the same rate of cures,
bout IS per cent to 70 per cent IN the
aTy cases and in all cases relief and
afety from infection. But the cure
4 Individual cases is not the only or
Aef object of the modern sanato-
ilm; it is to educate its inmates ana
trough them the people, in the meth
Il Of sanitary living by which means
tey may avoid becoming infected
-th the disease and by this means
stamp it out from among
ae prevailing diseases of mankind.
As things are at present this open
b treatment cannot be very success
bly, administered in the home-that
in the average home. This for sew
al reasons. In the first place dally
ID skilled attention is needed ana at
lme patients will not submit to re-
idctions which in an institution they
build not question. The sympathetlc
uitude of the family however deslr-
BE from a sentimental standpoint.
quite opposed to the rigid routine
lat the patient must pursue. 10 get
lie necessary conditions in the Well
do families is extremely dif1icult
ID in the homes of the poor quite out
the question. Still the battle must
fought out in the home as at the
st but a small part of the great army
can ever be accommo-
ted in institutions. To do this sue
ssfully we need state institutions
aere for a nominal sum certain
lmber can go for stated time
bout six months is the average) ana
ere learn how to get well. how 10
ep well and how to avoid injecting
hers with disease during the pro-
S. They can then return home ana
D act as missionaries and others
u learn from them. In this way III