The Dickinson press., 1912-11-02

the aeency of the sputum. Destroy the
sputum and you destroy 95 per cent of
its chances of communication. Trans
mission is largely the fault of those
sick Of this disease and while this is a
hard thing to say of the sick yet it is
absolutely true.
We know now that in many instan-
ces patients suffering from this disease
are cured. That in a much larger num-
Der of instances arrests of the disease
are made and the patient may, under
restricted rules. live on TO ripe old
age. Practically all cases are benefit
ted by proper line of treatment.
''The general rules Of management may
be laid down in few simple state
ments. Every case should be under
the general supervision of competent
physician. The treatment is in the
remedies ever at hand. in clean air,
pure water, simple, wholesome food.
Live in the open, live simple clean
lives. Slacken the pace if you are 60
ing too fast. Over exertion is bad in
all cases. Cut out bad habits if they
are present. and they doubtless are, we
are all human. The fellow who tries
t0pull himself out of the clutches of
tuberculosis with cork screw is headed
for the willows and he is burning up the
trail.
Learn to breathe scientifically and
practice it every day, this is good ad-
vice for everybody. Few people know
the luxury of full deep breath of air.
Drink plenty of pure water. we are all
of us too temperate on the water ques-
tion. 1t siuces out the excretory Or
gans. washes the blood, helps to carry
away body waste. Eat simple, whole
some food. Bread and butter, milk,
eggs well cooked vegetables and the
like. the things that are easily dieested
and furnish renewals for the body
waste. The system, you know. must
be kept above the line of the normal
part of health.
Fresh air day and night is one of the
absolute requirements. It's temperature
does not matter, it is all good. This
is the sheet anchor that will hold
against the currents of the disease.
Patients should early inure themselves
to the climate of their homes. No pa
tient should be sent away from home
for a climate if it is going to entai
homesicness. There is no climate
in the world so good as to compensate
for this miserable distress. All
is the same ,the world over aside
from its Temperature and the amount ei
moisture it contains and the only DOS
sible advantage that one place has over
another in this respect is in enabling a
patient to be out of doors a greater
number Of days in the year.
DO not be aflaid of air. Sleep in the
open when YOU can and if you have to
sleep in rooms see to it that the full
window space is used for ventilation.
Let the wind whistle about your bed at
night and do you know in little while
you will forget what cold felt like.
The patient must determine to get we'll.
Courage is fine thing in any fight.
Clean air, pure water. simple whole
some food. these are the requirements.
AS purely commercial proposition,
not taking into account the tears and
the suffering, the sorrow and the dis.
-tress that follow in it's bainful way, tu-
berculosis costs the United States seven
hundred and fifty million dollars every
year. This sum is conservative, busi-
ness estimate of the actual loss. in
time, in Value of usefulness and con-
structive power of those dying thus
about US every year. Surely this mat
ter should receive the most careful at
tention of all who hold in their
hearts tender place for the suffering
and the distressed Should receive the
most careful attention of every inte lii
gent citizen of the nation. if, for no
other reason than from the standpoint
of human conservation and national
economics.
1T is only because we are all so ac-
customed to this life waste. and look
upon it as the carrying out, in some
way of divine plan, that we fail to
recognize its importance. It is only
when some great calamity shakes us
alive to the crime of neglect that we
give the subject our serious thought.
EARLY in the morning on the fourteenth
of last April magnificent steam
ship. freighted with precious human
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