The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-09

kept sufficiently wrapped on the porches or In the rooms with the win
 dows widely. opened. The lesson of fresh air all the time must be thor
 oughly drilled into every patient. Af-
 ter remaining in an institution of this kind for a short time little trouble is usually experienced in keeping the pa- tients out.
 In winter greater care must be eXer-
 cised and greater difficulties are en- countered in carrying out the open air method satisfactorily. The cold, the winter winds and snow are all dreaded by sick as well as by the well. Keep
 ing warm, however, is purely 2 question
 of proper clothing. By means of wraps
 that are warm and by suitable under
 clothing patients may be perfectly comfortable outdoors. Practically all suitable cases for treatment are strong enough to walk an hour or two each day and this they should do regardless of storm or cold. In febrile cases of course this cannot be done. Such pa- tients must be kept quiet. There are but few days that the patients cannot be upon the porches well wrapped up in coats, furs or blankets, with foot warmers, and be kept perfectly con- fortable. A south porch enclosed at the ends answers every purpose. Heavy arctics should be provided for walking in the snow. Felt boots answer admir- ably for this purpose both for men and women. If storms are too severe and the cold too intense the patients may go to their rooms and, with the win dows wide open, sit wrapped near them
 or lie uon beds we'll covered with blankets to keep them warm. Thus
 treated, have ben gratified to see
 our efforts repaid even to greater extent than during the warmer months of the year It is also the experience of all who have turned their attention to the treatment Of this disease that patients do better during the cold than in the warmer months; yet in spite of
 all this, we find nine-tenths of the doctors advising their patients to go south, where it is warmer. In no dis ease has ignorance so concentrated been continuously applied or so difficult to overcome. E
 
 in the economy of nature is well illus trated in plant life. Recently, in con strueting building, the floor was placed some four feet above the ground and later in the year had occasion to go underneath the house. The view presented was most striking. The sprouts of trees and weeds had grown up in great profusion but it resembled a forest in ghost t-land. Long, slender, weak, sickly, white stalks crowded to- gether which fell down and withered at touch, while within few feet, just outside the wall where the sun and aid fell upon them, the same plants were fresh and green and in full en- joyment of perfect health. In likeAmaner do light and air affect human life and health. No more can strong, robust frames be formed in dark, close houses than can l the oak rear aloft it's head beneath a roof.
 The potency of fresh air lies not wholly in the percentage of oxygen and carbon dioxide which 1t contains. An analysis of air confined within a room may not show appreciable difference from that outside and yet be wholly 1 unfit for use. Air which has lain with 1 in a vault for months may be chemi- l cally pure, and when first enclosed, be | fresh. live air, but entering such a | place one feel sat once a sense of suf- 1 location; yet an analysis may show | the proper percentage of the gaseous | constituents of the atmosphere.