Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-31
Health Talks by DR.. Brady
Another Side of the Rainbow.

Side OF the Rainbow.
Here's y letter from a California seaside
town:
Having read your health letters for two
years and enjoyed them. want to ask your
aoFice. have daughter 81 years old, who
mas developed lung trouble (TB as you call
~ In the last year. from a cold as we saw
Il am told this is very bad climate for
people with weak lungs. Our doctors advic
is To send her away. Where, he does not
say. but just away from the damn sea air
We have a home and good living made by
my husbands labor She is inclined to get
blue and desperate and should not be alone
she has little girl years old. who lives
with us. she being a widow
Il think eggs. milk good meat and plentv
or fruit to eat. and much sleep and rest
as one con get, are the important things :"
anu 'here are still n great many persons
In the Eastern coast or mountain country
VINO cite the same authority the indefatigable
zen Told. for their belief that one with tubor.
cuiosis should go away. nowhere In particular
JUST anywhere far. far away where the rain
20" Is. have had great number OF letters
from peop" residing in the Southern part of
''e country who have consulted Ben Told, II nd
are convinced that their "catarrh" bronchial
'"uoie' 'uoerculosis or asthma would be bet
'rr they could get away from the home
'''"'ate and into the climate where the rain
10" u.s. way up North. And as everybody
KNOWS. nearly every victim OF a chronic rcs-
PrA'"ry disease up North ycarns TO live some
"hcre Tar OF In the ideal climate of the South
""e.e me rainbow Is. In the East invalids
cherish the deuson that they Will he hat,
yer on OUT west. and out West they feel they
should go East where the rainbow H.
suzanne on the doctor who puts this rain.
e""sihs notion In the head Of the in
valid without giving definite advice as 10
me place the invalid should go I, ,s an
ola dodge OF the incompetent doctor evcrv
"nerc, ana there Is excuse for IL what.
ever. 1t belongs In the same category win
'"e evasion OF the regular and respected
m dt,l,a
'"uch or catorrh." and tells the simpl.
pa'ient IL is this damp climate"-the Stiles,
'""ouie n medical gnoramus could perpo-
'rate upon connding patient
tuberculosis is being cured as surely and
as quickly at sea level North or south E,st
or West. as il is In any wcu.odvor,iscd nj
H'u"e. Dampness OF the air or focs have
II" nearing on the question of curahiItv
w. '."''n persons venture to remain in the
open air more of the time II they beIioy.
,"e ar is not too damp or too cold or too
NOT Tor their welfare. But II would be silly
~ IeaNe nome FOR mere within or phobia
WIN proper treatment this young woman is
'"''e as iikeIy to get well in California AS
she would he in Minnesota or New Jersey
vi oueoee' Proper treatment is not the glib
iorPnia which her mother suggests
tas
l. me regular attendance and supervision
III All matters of diet air. sunlight rest mcdi
cation and hygiene. in general NJ an cduc.,.d
physician
froionged rest in bed TIL there is no
more ie'er and the physician deems II safe
ior 'he patient TO venture out of bed
y, heep out the female buzzards who call
In tell Of sure cures and tragic d.nouenen,s
In similar cases "''
intelligent feeding. according to the doc
tors advice, not stunIng with any particular
"streng theninE food"
s. Freedom from worry and arxio,r ,,
me expense Of treatment and care ana fr.a
ocm from the handicap of homesickr.,s
factors which initiate against recovery IN
many case in which the victim has unwi.sI,
elected to chase the rainbow