Arizona republican., 1910-12-28
The Fight Against Consumption

The sales of Red Cross" seals in the United States during last week must have been enormous. The fund raised by the sale of these seals goes, as everybody knows. to aid the or ganized fight against tuberculosis.
 There are many ways in which the ravages of the white plague" can be lessened. but auxiliary helps are bound to fail more or less if the ne- cessity of providing fresh air is neg lected. The atmosphere of no region itself Mild climates, such as we have in Arizona, are beneficial simply be- cause people will inevitably live in the open air more than they do in cold climates. Fresh air is the great est curative agent yet found. and life in the fresh air of any healthy coun- try will enable a careful person to make a good fight against consump- tion.
 The closed window is the mainstay of tuberculosis. Closed windows in offices and shops, closed windows in dwellings and sleeping rooms. do more to encourage tuberculosis than per haps any other agency. A Cam bridge physician. writing in one of the current medical journals. says on this subject:
 We shall never really get the up- per hand of the white plague not with our anti-spitting crusades, nor our sanatoriums, nor our outdoor schools nor our campaign of popular education. until as a people we are willing to ventilate our houses with real air by day and by night. It is appalling to think how many intelli gent persons, large contributors to the anti-tuberculosis societies, still think that a room which had the win doWs opened for an hour in the morning is quite freSh enough for two persons to sleep the night through in without disturbing the window sash. or who feel that a capful of night air introduced through the modifying warmth of a room adjoin ing the sleeper is all that a discreet disciple of the fresh-air cure need be expected to undergo. No. we shall never root out the plague till we get at the last seIf-coddler with his head under the bedclothes."
 Fresh air is the best preventive of consumption and pneumonia. and is also most useful in curing theses dis eases.
 Next to fresh air in curing con sumption comes nourishng and di- gestible food.
 As to food, remarkable claims are made for fresh milk, warm from the COW. and these claims come from physicians in various parts of the country who have made a special study of tuberculosis. Not long ago The Republican received from a doc tor in Illinois a pamphlet which Un- fortunately has been mislaid, in which astonishing statements were made as to the success achieved by this physi- elan in the use of fresh. warm strip pings" The writer claimed to have made more than one hundred posi- tive cures of consumption by putting patients on this diet. and he reported that no case had failed of improve ment "Strippings" comprise the last milk given down by the COW at milk ing, and are practically pure cream. The patient. according to this physi elan, should drink the "strippngs" slowly immediately after milking; should be careful to take small quan titles at first. and gradually increase the amount from day to day until two quarts or more are taken in the course of the day. The writer stated that he had been astounded to find how rapidly patients put on flesh under this regimen. It was not un- usual, he said. for the drinker of "strippings" to gais in weight at the rate of a pound d day.