Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-04
Santa Fe Society
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drive, or an appeal for some other
natriotic or charitable cause, then
Benny" gives up his "two-bit' piece
proudly, joyfully, vigorously.
Benny" has suffered for ;he past
four years with tuberculosis of the
hip, an afflictiQn which is a most ter
rible form of the great white plague.
Up to a few years ago physicians
would scrape the hip-bone, would OPP
crate again and again. until the pa
tent was helpless and hopeless Grip
pie, and as a rule death was merely
waiting around the corner anyway.
OF late. in Switzerland. in high alti-
tude, it was found that the suns rays
had healing influence. A scientific
regimen was carefully evolved by
specialists. which held out hope that
tuberculosis of the hip could be cured
and that without crippling the patient.
1t took long and patient submission
to the cure; It was not only expensive,
but possible to only a comparatively
few. Experiments were made in Ari-
IONA, in California, in the Adiron-
dacks, in Florida, but every where it
seemed that there was something
lacking in the quality of the suns
rays as they filtered through the at
mosphere. q something" that was
healing, but which was lost because
atmospheric conditions. altitude, en-
vironment and other factors We're not
right One can imagine. therefore,
what it would mean to humanity to
discover a place in America, where
the actiniC, or the violet, or some
other rays of the sun-it is not yet
quite clear whiCh-would have the
same influence as they have in this
particular Swiss locality Benny
has discovered such place and it is
Santa Fe. That leads to the real story
for thus this has been merely an in
PRODUCTION.
"Benny's" parents live in Chicago.
They are poor working people and do
not have the money to put him under
the care of specialists, much less to
send him to the Alps for a cure But
they had the vision to put him in a
Chicago hospital, where specialists
did occasionally look at Benny"
The hole in the hip had grown
so large that one could put his fist
into it. Benny" never murmured.
Despite pain and discomfort he was
always smiling, always sunshine, al
ways injecting every one around him
with good, cheer, Drs. Miera and
Brown of 'Sunmount, who had been
splendidly successful right here in
Santa Fe, in curing tuberculosis of the
lungs, heard of Benny" They had
been extremely DESTROYS to try out the
cure for tuberculosis of the hips, as
it had been worked out in switzerland
and approved by specialists. They Sc
lected penny" as the patient and
brought him to Sunmount. And the
miracle has happened. Benny" is
being cured. A famous. a very fam
Gus doctor from New York. Dr.
Fiske-you will find his name in
who's Who, came all the way
from the Atlantic coast the other day
just to see Benny" DR.. Fiske mar
veled. There is no other case on rec
ord in all of the medical annals, in
which healing set in so quickly. After
four years in bed, eighteen months
strapped on a board, Benny" is on
the road to recovery.
Benny has been a miracle worker
in other ways at Sunmount. Other
patients there, who at times, quite
naturally, were dOwn-hearted, despair
ing, always Cheercd up when they saw