The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-28
EXERCISE FORTUBERCULOSIS
PHYSICIAN WHO HAS TRIED 4
 NEW TREATMENT.

Tells of His Methods--AbsOlute Neces-
 sity of Removing Five Conditions,
 Which are Restricted Respiration,
 Defective Blood Circulation, Der
 payed Nutrition, Defective Assimila-
 tion of Fats and General Blood POis-
 Oning.
 Dr. Daivid Wark. whose recent mono graph on 'The Rapidly Successful Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis tby Curative Methods attracted con siderable attention in the Medical Journal, the Medical World and half dozen other scientific periodicals, has furnished to the New York Evening Post the following discussion of his work:
 "Whatever the diversified symptoms may be that are observed in different cases of consumption, there are five morbid vital conditions present in every case without exception, the re- moval of which is absolutely essential to the cure of this disease. These con ditions are restricted respiration, defec- tive blood circulation, depraved nut rition. defective assimilation of fats, and general blood poising.
 "A man having sound lungs and normal breathing powers, of say live feet eight inches in height, can eXhale from his lungs at one effort, about 25O cubic inches of air. It he becomes his forced breathing capacity vii have fall en, in the first stage, to 154 cubic inch es; in the second to 131, and in the third stage to only 1O5 cubic inches. At the same time his regular automatic respiration will have dimished in about the same raio.
 Therefore the volume of air breath ed by consumptives, in the earliest de- tectable stage, has already declined about 35 per cent below the amount absolutely essential to maintain the normal play of the vital forces. More- over this notable deficiency declines in direct ratio with the progress of the disease until respiration finally ceases
 Pulmonary invalids are sent tc various climates to breathe air said tt have special curative virtues, but that is not necessary to complete recovery, if proper treatment be used in due time | Any pure air will do if the sufferers power to breathe enough of it is duly developed.
 "When the vital gas oxgen is once ir ] the system it causes many wonderful chemical and vital changes but the act of breathing, by which it is gotter 1 into the lungs and blood is mechanical consisting of enlarging the capacity of | the chest by muscular action, wher ! air rushes in to fill the partial vacuum All the constructions to full free re spiration from which consumptives suffer are due almost entirely to me. chanical impediments. These sufferes lack to fatal degree the thoracic me chanical coalitions requisite to carry or the respiratory process perfectly. Their chests are to often narrow and flat, the walls stiff and unyielding. not duly elastic. lungs themselves partially lost their resiliency, and some parts be. come almost or quite impermeable tc air.
 "But all these Instructions to norm al respiration can be readily removed by mechanical reament-passive medi cal gymnastics By such means when prescribed for the special needs ant condition of each patient and applied 1 by the physicians himself, or under his supervision, the thorax can be ex banded, the elasticity of its walls in creased, the respiratory strengthened the partially collapsed areas of lunt tissue opened up, and restored to effec tive breathing.
 Amy treatment competent to stor l deadly processes must consist, partly a least of measure adapted to increase eff | fectively the respiratory powers Tha 1 Is just what the treatment I advocat includes It is just one of the absolute necessary things the current treatmen does not include, and the current treat l ment is therefore so unsuccessful tha thousands of persons go to prematur | graves by pulmonary tuberculosis her, in Greater New York city, who coul, have been retoresd to health and tn activities of live if the principles O treatment l advocate weHe slilfully uti lized in due time.
 "The reduced respiration of consum ptives is necessarily by irregular bloo circulation. An equable current of tn, vital fluid distributing nutritive ma
 terials to every tissue and organ Is. I,
 these invalids, a physical imposslblity
 because the required quantity of oxy
 gen cannot get through the obstructe
 lungs into the blood to impart to tn
 vital fluid those essential properties o
 which a necessary part of it's circula tory power depends. The blood leave
 the surface of the body and the extle
 mites and forms internal compositions from which the lungs suffer wit
 special severity The blood of pulmon [ ary sufferers thus both the necessar
 nutritive composition and the norama
 proportion of oxygen to promote 1t
 proper circulation.
 "The plain, practical, obvious trut
 is that good health cannot be continue without an equaIble circulation or bloc
 to every part of the body, and whe
 disordered circulation does exist, it a
 cords neither with accepted scientif
 facts nor with common sense to expec