The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-28
new CONSUMPTION CURE
Pulmonary Diseases Yield to
Passive Gymnastics"
new YORK PHYSICIAN EXPERIMENTS
TREATS PLAGUE IN MECHANICAL
MANNER-cAN BE PRAcTIcED
By ANYONE.
new YORK PHYSICIAN EXPERIMENTS
New York Worldly

few weeks? 4 i Mah
The out Of door day and night treat
ment effects some wonderful results
But months are required-six months
ten months or twenty.
In this city 10000 die yearly from
the great white scOurge. In martial
platoons, 16 abreast this multitude
would cover Broadway from the Bat
terry to Madison square.
The New York board of health has
the names of $4,000 consumptives in
this city.
New York is spending millions of
dollars for tuberculosis sanitariums
far from the congested parts of the
town.
The disease is the most prevalent
and deadly that menaces life in the
cities.
DR.. David Wark, who has passed
40 years in the study and treatment of
tuberculosis, declares that in all but
the most advanced cases of the dis
ease a cure can be surely effected in
a month or two.
Results that give the patient conf
dence and the eXhlaration of restored
vitality are attained, DR.. Wark says, in
one week, a complete cure often in a
few weeks. Even the most difficult
cases Except those in the fatally ad-
vanced stages yield positive and per-
manent results
! The method consists of a series of
physical exercises upon the patient,
planned to obtain these results:
Relieved CONGESTION by improved
blood circulation.
| Absorption and elimination of dis
eased tissue
Increased breathing power by
strengthening the muscles of respira-
ton and by enlargement of the chest
and lung capacity.
Increased nutrition Of the tissues or
the body.
The whole process is summed up in
the explanation that 1.-The blood is made
by mechanical means
In a clinic at his office, Gil West
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street,
DR.. Wark showed and explained his
method of passive gymnastics
Method of "Passive Gymnastics"
A patient reclined upon a convert
ible chair-couch. He was subjected to
series of exercises, which, in their
entirety, with frequent rests of a few
moments, occupied three quarters of
an hour These movements in which
the muscular effort of the patient was
were as follows:
1. The man lying passive on the
couch has his chest over the lungs
rubbed with four or five firmly pressed
strokes of the palms of the doctors
hands, up and down.
2. The OPERATOR standing at the right
side and at the head of the patient,
takes hold of the patients right hand
and elbow, extended at right angles Of
| the body. Fhe patient exerts himself
! to lower the elbow to the side of the
body, the operator resisting. Repeated
three times wi
3. Cross-rubbing of whole length of
both legs
4. F1exing each leg at the knee. The
operator presses the knee as far as
possible up against the body.
5. Slow but vigorous cross-rubbing
of the abdomen and over the dia-
phragm.
6. The patient, sitting erect. hangs
his right leg over the operators knee.
The operator takes hold of the patients
foot on the floor. The patient everts
himself to straighten his leg by rails
ing his foot, against the operators
pressure. Repeated three times. Same
with left leg.
Z. The patient sits erect sidewise on
the couch. The operator, standing be-
hind him, places his right knee against
the patients back. and grasping his
arms near the shoulders, draws them
powerfully backward Repeated three
times. (This is omitted in case of a
patient who has had hemorrhages.)
s. The patient, lying face downward,
is rubbed across his body, over the full
length from shoulders to ankles
These passive" gymnastic exercises,
with some variations, perhaps. as the
special needs of a patient might re-
quire, are repeated daily.
To Increase Breathing Power.
All these movements are planned to