Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-07-26
MOTORING FOR LUNGS
AUTOMOBILE AS A SUBSTITUTE
FOR MOUNTAINS.
Good Thing for consumptives who
Can Afford It, But Trolley
Cars May Be Used
Instead.

len thousand miles OF autOmobiline
a year instead of cod liver oil and
bronchial tablets may be a future pre-
scription for those afflicted with deli
cate Threats and threatened with pub
monary disease. Why not walking
OF driving? Just as good for some
patients, say the doctors, but not
quite so convenient.
The automobile is recommended to
those who would be cured without
exile from home, says the New York
Sun. The patient lives in New York,
or Boston, or Philadelphia, Of Balti-
more. None of these cities has a
climate specially recommended for
throat or lung diseases.
Six months. a year, two years, half
a life time in the Adirondacks or Colo
RADIO used to be the remedy and stir
is for many. This meant and means
exile from home and friends and the
society of fellow sufferers.
The automobile means a residence
at home for at least eight months in
the year. From any one Of the cities
named the possession of an automo-
bile enables the patient to command
mountain air within a few hours
whenever he will.
1t means Saturday to Monday trips
that may take the patient and his
friends $50 miles from the coast. 1T
means on any fine day the possibility
of getting from 1,200 to 1000 feet
above sea level and remaining in the
open air for Is hours.
Swift touring cars of current make
render the traveller Independent OF
hotels, day or night. at meal time or.
at any time. Perhaps some of them
carry hot bathtubs. J
The patient with rapid change Of
scene, plenty of company, and a per-
petual picnic forgets that all this
travelling is done for health, and the
health sometimes comes before the,
patient quite realizes tn change. He
is not restricted to any particular
route. /
Some of the doctors begin to sus-
pect that the mountain air is not real-l
ly a necessity. There are men and
women who have profted wonderful
ly just riding about their own neign-
borhood and seldom getting 40 miles
from home. ,
There are stories of women who
have cured themselves Of seriousl
bronchial ailments by spending the
larger part of every day in little ma
chimes that they can manage them1
selves. Most of the time such auto
mobilists keep within easy return of
home. They get variety into their
rides by choosing different routes.
each day for a week and taking a diff
rerent companion of voyage every two
or three days.
One such in Boston became
so much the mistress of her machine,
that she could not only drive it with
ease, but actually take it apart and
put it together again. The absorbing.
interest of new knowledge probably
had something to do with the cure.
that followed. Hers was the fresh
air cure plus frequent change of scene.
and a new and absorbing interest.
OF course eight or ten hours daily
in the open air makes it practically
impossible that such a patient shall
sleep in a close rooom. The fresh air
treatment thus goes on while the pa
tient sleeps.
OF course, the automobile treatment
, is for the well-tO-do. But there are
| cynical doctors who suspect hat just
the plain open trolley car will do won
I ders for those who cannot buy motor
cars or hire chauffeurs. If a man or
woman has nothing to do but seek
health, the open trolley car may be
enjoyed at it's best.