The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
CONSUMPTION.
Facts all should know.

ties, bean-blowers, or anything that Is
nut in the mouth.
Peel or wash your fruit before eating
it.
Never cough or sneeze in PERSONS
face. Turn your face to one side. and
hold handkerchief over your mouth.
Keep your face and hands and finger
nails clean and wash your hands with
soap and water before each meal.
When you DO not feel well, have cut
voursei f or have been hurt by others,
don't be afraid to report it to the
teacher.
These are very simple rules which
any child can comprehend and obey.
There is more hope for the consump-
tive today than ever before. The treat
ment is fresh air day and night. The
patients who are cured under the new
treatment live out of doors day ana
night. Put your beds out on an upper
porch and sleep in the fresh air sum.
mer and winter. OF course the patient
must be kept warm by plenty of cover
and hot water bottles in cold weather.
Cover the head. leave only the nose
exposed to inhale the pure air. This
is what thousands are doing and being
cured by doing. A change of climate
is not necessary. Fresh air and sun
shine, plenty of rich, nourishing food,
milk, meat, eggs, taken often and IN
as large quantities as can be digested.
Do not take patent medicines. 20 to-
some reputable physician and let him
prescribe for you. Patent medicines
are largely made up of alcohol, and the
new treatment of consumption COLI
demns the use of alcohol. 1t is proven
by statistics that more alcohol is used
in patent medicines than whiskey sold
over the bar.
Sunshine, fresh air night and day,
fair weather or foul, plentyo of nourlsh,,
ing food to build up the system, and
freedom from all worry-these are nec-
essary for the cure of consumption.
When the patient has fever let him re-
main in bed. When free from fever
gentle exercise is beneficial.
TO guard against tuberculosis Keep
the young people in the fresh air as
much as possible. Ifyou have cough
ing friend or neighb y: give him this
article to read, that he may learn how
TO take care of himself and protect his
neighbors.
DR., Knopf, in his address in the city
Of Louisville, said:
Consumption is cured nowadays
not by patent medicines, but by the
| iudicious use of Gods pure fresh air
| for twenty-four hours out of the
twenty-four. TO be afraid ofthe night
air is nightmare. Night air in cities
is better than the day, because there is
less traffic, less dust, less commotlon,
and it is quieter. Sunlight, whenever
you can have it, cold and warm pure
water, inside and outside, and plenty
of it good food, simple food but good
food, and the constant care and super
vision of a good physician. If thsee
hygienic and dietetic rules do not OF
themselves suffice to cure patient,
give him q little medicine now and
| then. Can you not have all these in
your own city? Can you not have
Gods pure fresh air and water, pure
and clean, if you filter your water here,
and plenty of food? You have them
all in this city. Your climate is just
as good and as suitable for the cure of
consumption. 1t is not necessary for
you to send your patients out to Colo
RADIO. Colorado is an excellent place
for number of patients in the earlier
stages, but is not so good particularly
when they want to stay here. l am
very frank about this. do not agree
in this respect with number of my
colleagues, believe that if a patient
can be cured in his own home and
climate, even though it takes a few
months longer than it would in Colo
RADIO, he will stay cured, and a great
many patients sent cut to Colorado and
California will come back and get re-
lapse. Therefore, I plead for home
climate. Do not misunderstood me.
[ do not depreciate the value of alti-
tude, sunshine of pure air nj these
favorite resorts for the consumptive
it is great advantage, but we cannot
all have California or Colorado or
North Carolina climate. We must
make the best Of what we have, and
then the majority of our patients can-
not 20 to Califol MIA or Colorado. The
majority of our patients are the labor
ing classes, and those we must care
for, treat and cure in the same climate
in which they will have to live and
labor after their restoration to health.
I beg you, do not be discouraged about
your climate"