The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-23

ru surroundings and Conditions
pIav No Small Part With Copsuinp-
,,os-Vn an Ideal Location, With
rvcrything Kept So Clean There
Are No Flies, the Balm and
Strength in the Air, Sleeping Out OF
nocrs. and Simple Fare Make for
Curing Incipient Consumption.
by WILEY I'll. SWIFT.
If IS now more than five ears since
! first heard that North Carolina
.hauId care for her consumptives just
aS She is caring for her insane or her
blind.
The idea was new to mc, and he who
vas pressing it, seemed to me to be
more If d dreamer than anything else.
In TACT. the whole subject became new
f. me. To treat consunptives with an
idea Of curing any great percentage
Of IL, patients was going far in hopes.
had. up TO that time, thought that
~care.mptiCn was either beyond cure,
or that one had to go to the Far West
with a thousand chances of being
tryughu back in a coffin. / knew that
j. was being treated in the western
part Of North Carolina, but | shared
The general belief that conSunptiVes
went to The mountains or to Florida
with at best the hope of pulling
th~cG1h the umner orrwinter. l new
that they were dying in those same
mau0ta.ns and II the Everglades.
Here was a man who believed that
consumption. incipient consumption,
rollI be cured and who was working
out. Well nigh independently, in North
= roiina, the plan for bringing it
about. In fact. his ideas were even
jh"n quite clear. He had his plans
in chose first conversations as he has
them now. 1t was getting ready to
b born then; it IS being born now in
thu tuberculosis Sanatorium. located
a M0ntrOse, Cumberland County
N.r.h carolina.
Thn father Of this Sanatorium is its
present superintendent, DR.. J. L.
Brooks. 50 much as has been done,
has been lone by him, and to him,
together with his board of managers
belongs Very great credit for the ex-
ce.I@ut beginning.
tn chose Of us VINO know the be-
ginning Of his home for the treat
ment Of co~nsumptives, it is err
IuE IT is 0nIv another proof of the
TACT that a good idea Will live.
In those first days we called the
Young physician an. enthusiast; we
came but little short Of calling DR..
brooks q crank. When he begun try
1hg to work out his plans, his friends
called him a fool. Ever since a part
"f Tn" plant has been constructed and
patents have been admitted. his
trends have told him that he is crazy
j" p"ur his life into mis- scheme.
The fact is, that the whole idea
stoned to smack of the things not
- De realized. Here was a young doc
,,2r with neither fame nor fortune. If
ms IDEAS were good, why had not
some of the big fellows thought Of
l"rL1 Why were they not doing this
very jhIng if it was good? Nobody eX-
1tpf one lone little doctor had any
Sl14l auth in the plans, and yet, he
loot1 D" neither argued nor laughed
out If court.
remember now how he used to try
N''o" mo the absolute need of doing
so-Ie-olhg. Said he, MANY of our re-
no" publish notices that no con
|"t4uFeS will be taken. It Will nos
De long before all resorts will be
,iIa'o against persons with consump-
TL Now, where are they to go
dc cannot stay at home except to
ear, Many cannot afford to take re-
car l regiment. They can have little
Wb.. a." nome, and no one wants them
' !" 10 be lone with them? p"
bar..f Lea d young woman with tu-
can, '''9Is. | sent her to Texas. She
PIr IV pack Just in time to die at home
for .05T Shc died. she said to me. Doc
/, n.y." I Sehd any more conSunlptiVes
wants lney don't want us. Nobody
us lts -S, they make US feel bad; le-
TT,l@y at home"
Vo1ao words, spoken by a youns
ahly zone %heyound all help. prob
were '+I'it thaE any other one thing
i Tfoe the seed corn; they sank deeI
Ho 'Gg heart of the young physician
Sent ,ao' began to ask why they were
nea6 "%4y to die, and then, why they
deeper' q an! AS the thought sanI
'A1 deeper into his heart, he