The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-09-19
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CBy State Board of HEALTH

has issued a bulletin in which it says
there is no known medicine in the
world that will cure tuberculosis, but
that tuberculosis is a durable disease
if proper teatment is begun in its in
cipient stages, and continued until re-
covery. Under these conditions tu-
berculosis can be treated successful.
ly not only in Oklahoma, but in every
climate in the United States. 1t gen
orally is harmful and detriment to
remove the patient to strange sur
roundinGs. far from friends, in the
belief that change of altitude, climate
etc, are essential to recovery.
tuberculosis is a disease OF faulty
absorption and nutrition. The bacilli
cannot live in rich blood. When the
patient begins to gain in weight and
the blood is enriched by increase of
oxygen, the bacilli die 1t is prob.
able that many persons have tuber.
culosis in circumscribed areas, and
recover, without ever knowing that
they he'd been attacked by ttis dis.
ease.
The waste of human life and its
attendant economic losses by rea son
of tuberculosis are largely prevent.
able. Should its presence be Gus.
pected, the individual should consult
a responsible physician. If care,
full examination of the chest and the
sputum fail to detect the disease, and
there is a loss in flesh without a
known reason, the patient should be
put to bed. The temperature in he
morning and afternoon should be re-
corded and if there is a rise in the
afternoon, diagnosis of incipient tu-
berculosis is justified. provided, that
the diagnosis has exclud ed such dis
eases as malaria and typhoid fever.
The sputum for meteorological eX-
animation should be taken when me
patient rises in the morning. for in
the early stages of tuberculosis, spu-
tum obtained later in the day may be
cleared of bacilli, and their actual
presence not indicated.
AS long as the blood pressure is
normal and there is little or no rise
in the temperature in afternoon and
evening, there is every reason for be-
lieving that the patient could recover.
A competent physician should have
of the case. The patient
should at once be put to bed on
sleeping porch or in a tent, where
he will receive an abundant supply
of oxygen, and remain there month,
what is known as forced
or massive feeding. The purpose of
this feeding is to enrich the blood
and build up the system. The diet of
beefsteak, eggs, milk and cream
should be increased gradually to the
maximum amount that the patient
can consume. Patients have been
known to consume three quarts of
milk, two dozen eggs, and astonishing
amounts OF butter and beefsteak in a
day, and to gain a pound a day for
thirty days. With the resultant gain
in flesh, and enrichment of the blood
the bacilli is driven from the system,
for it dies in the presence of bodily
health.
No disease from which human be-
ings suffer offers a wider field for
the deadly and pernicious practices
of quacks than does tuberculosis
There absolutely is no medicine or
medical treatment at the present time
that will cure tuberculosis,-recov
IS due to improved assimilation, alb
and nutrition. Unless there
S increase and recovery of bodily
weight, and publication OF the blood
Dy increase of oxygen, the bacilli in
.he blood cannot be killed, according
10 present knowledge of this disease |
There was hope that the tuberculin
IF the renowned DT Koch of Berlin |
night prove a specific In selected
Eases, administered by experienced |
the effects were bene ic-, 4,
al, but tuberculin is positively harm
ul when improperly administered.
Where tuberculosis is suspected,
he individual should have the cour
lge and common sense to consult
reputable physician. This duty he
yves to himself, his family, and So
iety. Procrastination and death are
90 often synonymous in tuberculosis.
.arge numbers who act promptly are
esto-ed to normal health Year after
ear, thousands upon thousands die
hrougn ignorance and neglect.
GLASS SET ANY KIND OR SIZE.