The Colorado statesman., 1906-06-30
MOTORING FOR LUNGS
AUTOMOBILE AS A SUBSTITUTE
FOR MOUNTAINS.
Good Thing for Consumptives Who
Can Afford 1t, But Trolley
Cars May Be Used
Instead.

Ten thousand miles of automobiline
a year instead of cod liver oil and
bronchial tablets may be future pre-.
scription for those afflicted with deli
cate throats and threatened with pull
monary disease. Why not walking
or 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. year, two years, half
a life time in the Adirondacks or Colo,
RADIO used to be the remedy and still
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 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 1900 to 1000 feet
above sea level and remaining in tho
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.
The patient with rapid change of
scene, plenty of company, and 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
ly a necessity. There are men and
women who have profited wonderful.
ly just riding about their own neigh.
borhood and seldom getting 40 miles
from home
There are stories of women who
have cured themselves of serious
bronchial ailments by spending the
larger part of every day in little ma,
chimes that they can manage them
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 week and taking a diff.
| ferent companion of voyage every two
or three days.
| One such woman 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 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 rooon. 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 that just
the plain open trolley car will do won
ders for those who cannot buy motor
cars or hire chauffeurs. If man or
woman has nothing to do but sect
health, the open trolley car may be
rricyed at its best.