The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-18
CHAUTAlUA SALUTE
MENACE TO HEALTH
"AbOIish Waving of Handkerchiefs"
Declares Expert on Tuber-
culOSiS.
WHY SANATORA ARE NEEDED.

"The Chautauqua Salute (waving of
handkerchiefs) should be abolished" +"
declares DR.. Lawrason Brown of Sar-
anac sanatorium, one of the leading
authorities Oh the treatment of tuber-
culosis ':Sputum in handkerchiefs
quickly dries on account of the heat
of the body, and if the handkerchief
is used again, some of the sputum be-
comes in part pulverized, and when
shaken in the air tends to disseminate
as dust. Colds may be disseminated
by the careless use of handkerchiefs
individual may possibly reinfect him
self To make practice of expect
Grating into the handkerchief is mex
cusable and dangerous"
Keep away from anyone who coughs
without covering his mouth. advises
Dr. Brown, but he also makes vigor-
Gus prat6st against the prevailing
foolish fear about contagion from<a
careful patient, insisting that he who
collects and destroys his sputum by
burning and who covers his mouth
when coughing, cannot possibly be a
source of danger to anyone. Grip,
colds, bronchitis, influenza, diphthe-
ria, and pneumonia, as well as tuber-
culosis, may be contracted from the
careless cougher.
In his new book, RULES for Recov-
cry From Pulmonary tuberculosis, y
he lays great emphasis on the value
of rest and the danger of self-pre-
scribed exercise in the treatment OF
tuberculosis, making the need for
constant and competent medical su-
pervision as self-evident that it is an
unanswearable argument for sanato-
rum treatment.
mo one attempts to walk on bro
ken leg or to wiggle finger with a
skinned knuckle in order to hasten
recovery" he says. If the patients
could only. see the disease in their
lungs, the slow progress that is often
made toward healing, it would be d1f-
ficult to persuade many of them to
take any exercise for a long, long
time.
"The general public kOnws how i'm
portant good food is, realizes that
fresh air is necessity, but is still
wholly as sea in regard to the danger
and value of rest and exercise.
"Strychnine and arsenic are valu-
able drugs, but not many would care
to experiment upon themselves to
find out the proper dose In pull
monary tuberculosis it requires Tar
more experience to decide the dose
of exercise than is necessary in the
use of arsenic or strychnine.
ga patient is never injured by six
weeks rest in bed By remaining IN
bed a few weeks, he can shorten his
time of treatment by several months.
He also warns against returning
home early from a sanatorium.
1--WE cannot cure a patient in six
months, but we can get him in such
shape that when he returns home ne
will know to take the right care OF
himself and to keep his body in such
shape that it can not only hold its own
against the tubercle germ, but that II
can also fight against it and in three
or four years overcome it. 1t does take
that length of time and it does re-
ouire that kind of treatment.
eff a man does not develop self con-
troll while he is curing his time is
lost. Unless patient can say no
when the occasion arises, his chances
for getting we'll are very slight. He
can tear down in one day or IN an
hour what it has taken him many
months to build up.