The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-05-27

ing food. Drink plenty of milk and
water, keep your body clean. Take no
drugs except on the advice of physi-
clan. Be hopeful and cheerful.
Life is not to live, but to be WELL"
The patient will do better if he can have
his meals at table where others are
eating and enjoying their food. But a
consumptive should not be allowed to
| sit at a table with others, unless his
hands and face have been carefully
! washed and unless he is able to suppress
his cough while at the table. Pleasant
surroundings, cheerful dining room,
| an inviting table with clean cloth and
napkins, palatable, well cooked food
attractively served are all essentials in
the dietetic treatments of consumption.
A few words as to the use of alcohol
(beer, whiskey and the like in con-
sumption. Alcohol is now very seldom
used in the treatment of consumption.
1t is wrong; it is foolish to imagine that
alcohol has any specific action against
consumption, ordinarily the consump-
tive needs no alcohol, usually he is
better off without it. Alcohol should
never be taken by a consumptive
except on the advice of the physician.
AS TO CHANGE OF CLIMATE.
While certain climates may be prefer
red for certain consumptives, it is
nevertheless the consensus of opinion of
leading authorities of the day that there
is no climate which has a specific cura-
tive power over consumption. Many,
including Dr. $. A. Knopf of New York,
who is an acknowledged expert on the
treatment of consumption, hold that
cures effected in the home climate in
which the patient will have to live and
work after their restoration to health,
are more lasting and assured than eases
obtained in more genial climss. While
1t is true that patients cured in the re-
gions of the far W est have been able to
live and work in Wisconsin in climates
deemed unfavorahle for consumptives,
it is also known that others can never
leave the climates in which they recov-
cred, for on their return to their own
state, their disease will recur.
There are many reasons why an at.
tempt should be made to cure a con-
sumptiye patient at or near his own
home, especially will this be the case if
the patient be not in good financial cir
cumstances. Many reasons why he
should not be sent a long distance from
home. Separation from friends depres-
SEES the patient, inconsistencies is the
result.
the road to recovery in their own state
at cost which would barely defray
their expenses to and from Colorado
and Arizona.
The fatigue of a long journey is bad
for consumptive. The expense of
living in the states having Specific
Climate" is great, even if his disease
be cured, the patient may not be able
to return to live in his home state. If
the patient must work he can find no
occupation. TOO many have preceded
him.
The cost of consumption to the United
States annually is at least $3.50, 00O and
yet consumption is durable disease.
In view of the fact that consumption,
dangerously communicable disease is
causing more human suffering and
greater loss of life among our people
than any other existing disease it be-
comes our duty to warn the people of
it's dangers and to advise them of the
measures necessary to prevent its
spread
Should this article be the means of
saving one human life-and if the d.
rections enjoined herein be followed, it
will save many thousand. / will feel
my efforts for writing this article have
been well rewarded.
DIR. c. j. SKWOR,
Algoma, Wis.