The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-02-08
Patients IN the third stage are al.


Patients IN the third stage are al
most bedfast. They betray their con
dition to everyone. They should not
leave home. OF If they insist on doing
so, 1t should be to go to a nearby
sanitarium, where life can be prolong
ed; but cure must not be expected
nor promised.
How many millions dollars worth
of drugs do you suppose nave been
| swallowed in the vain hope of cur
million dollars worth are today swal
flowed in the endeavor to reach the
tuberculosis nest through the stom-
ach? Ask the doctor who still puts
his trust in drugs, or who hopes
| against hope that some new chemical
| combination may reach the diseased
spot; ask the patent medicine man
himself-they will tell you.
"And then ask the conscientious
scientific student, What is the treat
ment for tuberculosis and he will
say, Rest, food, pure dry air.
Rest, Food, Air.
Drugs may do something, of course
for they often act as a whip, OF they
clean the system, or they induce need
ed sleep, but drugs are only tempo
rary makeshifts for the individual,
and no drug or prepared formula can
ever substitute the absolute essen
tials of nature.
cit is difficult to say which of this
triad-rest, food, pure airs the
vital necessity in h treatment in the
effort to stop the -encroachment of dis
reducing the virulence of the germ,
to kill it so that the patient may be
said to be free from infection-to be
cured"
The article continues in telling of
the best o and the way a patient
should care for himself, or herself.
DR.. Hale states that pure air, at any
place., will aid in the fight against the
disease but then says:
ct is not implied that the rough
damp climate of Maine or Michigan
is as good as the soft, balmy, dry,
sunshiny climate of California or New
Mexico.
Nor it is to he misunderstood that
the uplands of the great Southwest
have not as fine a climate as there
is to be found anywhere. Surely no
one can deny that there are more
sunny days in the year here than in
almost any similar area; less mois-
ture in the air; greater freedom for
out-of-door life"
He then defines the great South
west as follows:
Great Southwest.
Therefore, in speaking of the
Great Southwest, over which there is
a climate that for the purpose of our
discussion presents the characters
tics suitable for residence of the tu-
b~eculosis, l mean that territory begin
ming at laredo on the Rio Grande,
bounded on the east by San Antonio,
the Colorado and Red Rivers, on the
north by the Texas and New Mexico
state lines and on the west by the
Rocky Mountains.
cit includes the western half of
Texas all of New Mexico and Arizona
a slice of Nevada, the eastern noun
tain slope of southern California, and
1 might add, the Rio Grande drain
age of Old Mexico"
After criticising the east for send
cover or have not sufficient funds
and hence become charges on the
community, he continues to praise the
number of cities in the Southwest,
especially in New Mexico.
There is no need to record a
| death roll of twelve thousand human
beings a year. The climat will work
| miracles if we make the best of it,
but we must study tuberculosis, we
must study climate, and we must
study under what conditions climate
will ai5 in tho o,1roo