Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-02-07

the most important thing in the cure
Of this disease. and because this con-
dition is the hardest to conform to.
Oh the hours and days In which you
must rest and stay still are so long
and weary. When you are so very
weak that even the exertion of talk
ing will cause you to perspire and
nave been that weak. you are per-
haps thankful that you have no con-
sumption, and at any time too much
company while kindly meant is often
Injurious to the patient as overtask-
ing his strength, but 10 spend day
after day, week after week in abso-
lutte idleness especially when you be-
gin TO improve and get strong is In
deed a hard task. You tire of reading
and this certainly will tax your pa
thence and faith % the uttermost.
Along with rest lne patient must eat
all the nourisning food he can. He
should make a special EFFORT to eat all
he can digest. Eat slowly. The words
nourishing food is rather vague and
people are apt to confuse IL with deli
cacies. DeIicacies are not wanted but
plenty of beef. chicken. rise, potatoes,
hog and hominy and sucn good ordi-
nary substantial food as the patient
has been used to eating all his life
plenty fresh sweet milk with the
cream, eggs, soft boiled and rare will
give him all the nourishment requir-
ed One OF the symptoms OF tuber-
tilosis or consumption is loss of APP
betite: in that case give TIE patient
plenty of raw eggs and milk. have
found also beef tea made OF Armours
Extract OF Beef half a teaspoonful to
a cup of hot water with little but
ter. pepper and salt and few crackers
broken up in IL very strengthening.
The patient can always gulp down raw
eggs. milk or beef tea, when perhaps
he could not take much solid food. In
the meantime the doctor will be able
To prescribe tones that will give him
an appetite and I want to say that as
long as the patient can eat plenty
and gain instead of losing weight he
is not in any darger of dying of con-
sumption but is making progress to-
ward recovery.
About contracting consumption <efor
tuberculosis il is very contagiouse but
only by breathing the dried Eputum
cougned up by a patient. patient
should try as much as possible when
coughing or sneezing 70 hokd a hand
kerchief or cloth to his face to avoid
scattering the fine sprays of sputum.
He should also always spit into a
cloth or vessel in (which there is a
little water with <a teaspoonful Of
carbolic acid. Tlke cloth can be burnt
the contents -Q1fThe sputum cup burned.
He should eep alone and his towel,
wash cloth And other toilet articles be
kept sepsfate and used only by him
self. Ills bedding summed and aired
as often as possible Sunshine and
air fare this diseases greatest enc
miEs and too many precautions cannot
- taken to keep clean and clear OF the
Eputgm.
Do not use alcohol or whisky in
4 any form. it will do no good but on
the contrary is very injurious to the
patient OF all things avoid patent
medicines and other nostrums adver-
tised for the cure of consumption. ]
Quick concerns begging me TO send them
/ So or $40 and let them save my life
cannot find words strong in which Ia
condemn these pitile~s scoundrels who
prey on the ignorant sick and unfor-
tunate. A moments thought will con-
vince any one that If there was any
/ cure for this disease there is no price
that the possessor could ask Of this
tuberculosis stricken world that u
would not pay for the formula, nc
honor that IL would not confer on the
z Qlc[OfcEGf- IL htCp EONA lhOhSys Aeh
that is all these Charlatians are after.
In offering this advice and informa-
ton / am not in any way endeavoring
to take a physicians place. but am
simply trying 10 encourase you to
follow his advice and to show what a
long. hard struggle the tuberculosis
patient has and to assure you from
the light OF my own experience that II
you will follow the rest, food and
fresh air cure described there is con-
siderable nope Of a cure. at any rate
I II is the only cure known to science
today.
] In conclusion let me advise sll peo-
pie afflicted with this awful disease to
write to the Society for the Prevention
and Cure Of tuberculosis. 1UO East
Twenty-second street New York city
for their little book. Living and
Sleeping in the Open Air" and other
literature explaining the treatent OF
this disease. They are free and will
be forwarded to you gladly,
Very truly,
@. W. c.,
Belleville. Ala.